[ritchiebaby]

I'm afraid Burnham is not standing up for the poorest and weakest, they are the ones who will be hit hardest in any increases in Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths, which could easily happen with all the delay in putting Tier 3 into operation. He's intent on standing up to Boris in a political battle.

Perhaps Keir Starmer is giving Burnham the bullets and getting Burnham to fire them - good cop/bad cop, or am I just being cynical? Perhaps Boris wanted a fight in order to blame Burnham for any of the above increases? Whatever the reason, it's all extremely unsavoury.

Don't forget Boris was an MP, then London Mayor and managed to get elected as an MP again and eventually PM. Burnham was an MP, now Manchester Mayor and then?.... you just never know.

Having said that, it's good to see that Labour still have fire in their bellies.