It’s day eight of Andy Burnham’s premiership and, bless him, he’s already facing a left-wing revolt. Labour backbenchers are up in arms after their dear leader dared to mention tackling welfare. The new Prime Minister insisted this week that he wants to ‘get really serious’ about slashing the benefits bill. He has, of course, offered

New prime minister has also warned that ‘the NHS will collapse’ unless he fixes social care

As Andy Burnham admits he is preparing to make some benefits ‘conditional’, political editor David Maddox looks at the politics of the Labour Party and when the new PM is taking a…