It would be pretty stupid not to be making plans -- the last two years have been a worked example of what happens when you get into government snd and don't have a plan for what you'll do. … (View Post)

Mmm. Has Cooper done (or not done) anything that would provide sn obvious argument for putting somebody else in? If not, Burnham should favour continuity rather than putting in yet another minister. … (View Post)

I expect that if Burnham manages electoral results in three years on a par with New Labour's results after their first term in office he'll be pretty happy with that. (View Post)

It's been planned policy for over a year -- this BBC article is from June 2025: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdyz848j0no . The mechanism, I think, is that the Police, Crime, Sentencing a… (View Post)

It's an obvious attack and you might as well make it, but I suspect that anybody who isn't already pretty partisan isn't going to care or remember in six months time. When Sunak lost i… (View Post)