Burnham’s political sweeties are just more meaningless policies… It’s time he stopped tinkering and faced real problem

TOO often I find myself thinking back to Rachel Reeves’ first Budget and wondering whether it’s within the grasp of man to drink 550 pints of lager. That is not, in fact, the exact amount of booze needed to vaporise every last brain cell and wipe her calamitous tax hikes from memory. It was certainly...