He has other things on, but a Prime Minister always does. As with Southampton and Belfast, there has been no COBRA meeting about the attacks in Edinburgh. There has been no declaration of a national emergency. There has been pretty much nothing. For this as for a thousand other reasons, dismiss with undisguised contempt the suggestion that the departing Keir Starmer was "a decent man".
As to Andy Burnham, while he gives many grounds to inspire less than full-hearted enthusiasm, we may at least enjoy the class and regional hysteria against the prospect of his Premiership, the seventh in 10 years. No Prime Minister has completed a full term since David Cameron in 2015, even though Cameron won a healthy majority that year, Boris Johnson won a huge one in 2019, and Starmer won a colossal one as recently as 2024. But then, Tony Blair had won comfortably in 2005 on a specific commitment not to seek a fourth term, but nevertheless to serve out a third. Margaret Thatcher had swept the board in 1987 by frankly presenting her rule as permanent. And the last Prime Minister both to enter and to leave office at General Elections was Ted Heath, before most people were born. Think on.
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