Team Burnham is busy trying to mop up after their leader signed himself up to spending £10.5 billion on the Waspi women. Cuckoo…
The Manchester Mayor told a hustings event in Makerfield: “I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.” Starmer people are pointing out that Labour has resisted this to its credit…
Last time Starmer’s government looked at this the potential bill reached almost £11 billion. A Burnham spokesman only said he was “committed to looking at” Waspi compensation. You can’t stop the rollercoaster…
On background the Burnham camp is insisting in a panic that his comments were not a specific spending commitment and that it is only under consideration. Once again Team Burnham is pretending they can freely differentiate between actual policy proposals for government – which they are sending out – and policy material Andy comes out with…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”