Burnham wants to take us back to the 1970s but he isn’t old enough to actually remember how bad it was. NOTHING worked

COUNCILLOR Burnham busied himself this week by telling a gathering of Labourites that he’s from the North and likes a pie and a pint at the footie. He really should get himself a ­whippet. But then he had to make his Big Speech, and for that he had to stop ­making Northern noises and get...