As Sir Keir Starmer can tell Andy Burnham when they pass each other going out and coming in, campaigning for office is very different from governing. Mr Burnham has made an impressive pitch to be prime minister, an opportunity for which he has been preparing for more than a year, as his campaign manager Louise Haigh admitted this week.
His sales push has been so persuasive that by the end of the first day of nominations yesterday, he secured enough endorsements to wrap up the contest. It is now impossible for another candidate to obtain enough nominations to stand.
