TWOP was ready with a battery of analysts to cost spending commitments, accountants ready to estimate tax effects and a “scoop” of commentators. No need. We might as well have watched the cricket. The speech can be summarised surprisingly succinctly.

A Burnham Government would:

• try to be nicer to everyone and collaborate more
• set up a new office for the PM in Manchester so he can work from home “direct power to the regions
• build more council houses (no grimacing there at the back Rayner)
• take back control of utilities as long as it doesn’t cost anything
• be very enthusisastic about everything.

Those who really do like the detail may like to check our summarisation skills by reviewing our transcript. We recommend this only for those not careful of their time.

Finally, the most emblematic structural point this speech made was an absence not an inclusion. The Dear Leader did not allow questions. This for the first and perhaps only “policy” speech the newly elected MP makes before being made Prime Minister on 17th July, just if no other candidates are selfless enough to stand against him. Less than three weeks. Discussion: none.

Send the crack TWOP team home. Not needed after all. Sorry lads.

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