At the time of going to pixel, dozens of unwashed Just Stop Oil protesters are lying on the road outside Parliament. Burnham’s convoy is still inside the Palace gates, waiting for police to unstick the idiots from the ground.
Just Stop Oil retired their stunts for a while, but it looks like unemployment was too boring without pointless stunts. So they’re back…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”