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Commentators are underestimating the Prime Minister’s brittleness
When Andy Burnham was not quite yet leader of the Labour Party, he cast himself as a consensualist, even going so far at one point as talking about scrapping the whipping system by which party leaders exert discipline over their MPs. And yet:
Andy Burnham will demand the loyalty of his ministers if he pushes ahead with plans for a return to free movement and rejoining the EU, despite a cabinet split on the issue.