Andy Burnham is refusing to take the usual pack of political journalists to the Commonwealth summit in Antigua later this month. This breaks precedent significantly…
The PM always takes a pack. Starmer and a large group of journalists travelled across the globe together for the last one. This time, only hacks with the Press Association will be going. The PM usually takes questions on the plane and so on…
The King happens to be going and is taking a gaggle of royal reporters, which means the unelected monarch will endure about ten times more scrutiny than the Prime Minister. The ‘comms genius’ strikes again…
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – CHOGM – is a biennial summit which brings together representatives from all 56 Commonwealth nations. What’s wrong with reporting on that?
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.