Andy Burnham’s Question Time confession kicked off a summer of chaos

Burnham has always been the favourite (Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)Last night’s Question Time from Makerfield, scene of a by-election later this month that could upend British politics, was touted as a blockbuster event, a chance to see where we stood ahead of voters going to the polls on June 18. In many ways, it delivered – with Andy Burnham breaking cover to confirm that he would challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour Party leadership, and the keys to Number 10, if he triump