Political Picture · elections

Filed by Deacon Rift

The prime minister has lifted the spirits of the public and party members, and must use that goodwill to push through changeHe bounded into the packed rally, a spring-heeled intruder whose very presence announced a coup at last year’s Labour conference. And so it was. Andy Burnham spoke with ebullient self-confidence, yet without aggression or a barrage of insults. They tried to stop him with a bogus constitutional fix barring him from standing in Gorton and Denton. But those Labour hierarchs lo