THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Iain Macwhirter) - On His Big Policies, Burnham Begins Backtracking
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UK Special Coverage On His Big Policies, Burnham Begins Backtracking The prime minister has always been slippery, but sudden policy changes this early presage trouble. UK Special Coverage Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images “A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar. The barman says, ‘What are you having, Andy?’” OK—it’s an old joke dating from Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s past (failed) Labour leadership campaigns. He has long been accused of telling people what they want to hear, of being a political chameleon. But no one expected him to elevate it into a…Open