Isabel Hardman: All politicians and their privacy-loving spouses give ground once they’re in Downing Street

Isabel Hardman: All politicians and their privacy-loving spouses give ground once they’re in Downing Street

Labour grandees, including some Cabinet ministers, told the Prime Minister that his time was up following Mr Burnham's thumping victory in the Makerfield by-election.

The Labour politician's triumph means he's now our prime-minister-in-waiting, but his wife of 26 years has always flown under the radar

Isabel Hardman: The new PM's worst inheritance will be a party that gets intensely emotional about welfare