If Keir Starmer didn’t already understand Harold Macmillan’s warning about ‘events, dear boy, events’, he got a lesson on Saturday. At 5 p.m. on the dot, Andy Burnham announced that he wished to stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election. It wasn’t hard to find people, whether they like Keir or not, within the party machinery who think that’s not a very good idea.’With Trump, Starmer was also decisive. In facing down Burnham, the Prime Minister deferred an explanation of what he and his government are really about, now that the missions, pillars and pledges of 2024 and 2025 are gone. He remains the most unpopular prime minister since polling began.