Like any new monarch at their coronation, Andy Burnham had some essential duties to fulfil during the Labour Party’s special leadership conference.
Anointed by the high priestesses of the party’s left and right, Lucy Powell and Shabana Mahmood (who looked as though it was she who had won the lottery of political life), he did not disappoint – at least, not the relatively few who had gathered in a room at TUC headquarters to watch history being made.
