You can tell he didn’t say anything because of the headlines my colleagues in the journalism trade put on Andy Burnham’s campaign launch speech. The Independent said: “Makerfield voters ‘will write script’ for change in British politics.” Other media had “Manchester mayor says politics ‘needs a new script’”, and “Vote for me to change Labour”.
I watched all 15 minutes of it, because here was a chance for the person widely expected to become prime minister within weeks to set out why Makerfield should choose him, on behalf of the rest of us, to move into 10 Downing Street.
