Andy Burnham week one: promises, pitfalls and the prison problem | In The Room

Andy Burnham survived his first week.

After repeatedly describing it as the best day of his life, the former mayor and prime minister of Manchester now resides at No.10 North, his spiritual home.

It’s been a week of 6 a.m. policy cuts, wall-to-wall news coverage, and Burnham at the heart of every story.

But Helen and Cleo aren’t just here to admire the opening moves. They want to know whether his presidential style has already turned into arrogance, what the prison U-turn at the bottom of the announcements actually indicates about the government, and perhaps most of all…why he keeps hugging everyone.

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