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?
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.”