Justice minister Jake Richards has deleted a swathe of historic tweets critical of Andy Burnham. Along with the rest of the Parliamentary Labour Party doing a digital spring clean…
Richards was up in Makerfield on Saturday to campaign for Burnham, despite having said that the Manchester mayor despite thinking is “jezza-lite” and “has the antenna of a dead cat.” He wants to keep his job now…

Richards has left a smattering of Burnham-sceptic material on his X history. Or is that going to go, too?
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”