This is brilliant. A forensic piece of cultural excavation that goes right to the heart of Burnham, and New Labour's, ideas about class and patriotism, through the lens of Burnham's defence of Larkin, and might tell us something about the kind of politics PM Burnham will espouse.
Jeremy Noel-TodI wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK