'This is our fifth praetorian coup in 10 years. Even the Roman senate would consider that too many.' (Tim Stanley)

People say 'Andy' Burnham Great Britain's next PM will be another Starmer but this is not true. Nobody resembles anyone else.


Nobody thought Mrs Thatcher would be any good when she became Conservative leader or PM but she was.


Mr Burnham is a human being and makes jokes and read English at Cambridge.

It's incredibly important that he has read good books. You don't need to read English or go to Cambridge to do that but I bet KS hasn't. Corbyn certainly not. Has Kemi? Sunak's fave is Jilly Cooper. Brown read a lot but politics and economics. Blair read the Koran and Ivanhoe.


I wrote about this here.

Tim Stanley behind paywall is here.