Welcome to the Andy Burnham show: the Westminster frenzy sucking up the British media’s attention | Marina Hyde (opens in new tab)

Despite Friday’s awful rail crash, it was the PM-in-waiting’s journey from Manchester to London that dominated the headlinesBogglingly, Andy Burnham didn’t even wait to become prime minister before organising yesterday’s ludicrous photo of him , backdropped by hundreds of fawning Labour MPs, like Dorothy surrounded by the munchkins. Or like the bit in Return of the Jedi where the detestably cutesy Ewoks as a god. Actually, the Westminster Hall visual was even naffer than the Ewoks singing the...