John Rentoul, chief political commentator – “The cat’s out the bag ... Andy is making this about No 10”
However hard the BBC and some of the panellists pretended, it was all about Andy Burnham. Some of it was about Burnham versus Robert Kenyon, the Reform candidate, as they competed to present themselves as Westminster outsiders – “normal people” in Kenyon’s phrase – wanting to go “down to London” to give Makerfield a fair deal.
