Even Jo Johnson might marvel at the sheer, breathtaking velocity with which Burnham has turned his predecessor’s sacred cows into drive-thru burgers.

In the sweltering July of 2017, Joseph Johnson stood at the Dispatch Box to accuse Labour of executing "the old game of bait and switch, saying one thing before a general election and another thing immediately after." Johnson, the slightly more house-trained wing of his family, was furious about tuition fees. Fast forward to today, and his diagnosis of Labour's electoral flexibility looks less like a partisan jab and more like an instruction manual for the incoming Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham has not merely moved into Downing Street; he has arrived with a skip and a sledgehammer. Out goes Keir Starmer’s beloved digital ID scheme. Into the shredder goes the government’s technology department. Most brazenly of all, the manifesto pledge to ban new North Sea oil and gas drilling is being quietly smothered with a pillow.

Kemi Badenoch has gamely tried to brand the new Prime Minister a "people pleaser" with "airy fairy" plans. But there is nothing airy about offshore drilling. Johnson warned that Labour would pivot the second the ballot boxes snapped shut. He was right, though even he might marvel at the sheer, breathtaking velocity with which Burnham has turned his predecessor’s sacred cows into drive-thru burgers.

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