The UK has an adult PM again prepared to speak to voters as fellow adults

Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. If he does this and nothing else he would have achieved more than most other UK leaders It feels like the UK has a prime minister again. Not the Maybot paralysed with indecision. Not the clown-like Boris Johnson who crumbled under the weight of his own narcissism. Not the ridiculous Liz Truss. Not the steamrollered Rishi Sunak for whom everything was impossible. Not the automaton-like Keir Starmer who was never entirely sure what he wanted to do. But a p...

By John Crace