If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street, he’s bounding along with glee. So delighted is he, in fact, that he seems not to have noticed that he’s walking into a trap. The problem for Burnham is that the snare

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Slowing growth. Ballooning interest payments. Rising cost of living. Andy Burnham will inherit Labour at a moment of fiscal peril.