Crying out for principle
ANDY BURNHAM is correct to say that Labour is “crying out for leadership” after Monday night’s shambles over the government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill.
Burnham claims credit for persuading interim leader Harriet Harman to table a “reasoned amendment” to the Bill before falling in line with her abstention call.
He insists that, were he party leader, he would have opposed the Bill outright.
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