MPs and ministers are openly discussing replacing the Prime Minister with Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester. Burnham was expected to use the failure to deliver the law to harangue Starmer at the party conference in Liverpool. At cabinet, Starmer also spoke about the weekend’s Tommy Robinson march, saying the battle against the far-right is ‘the fight of our lives’. The most immediate threat to the Prime Minister comes from his own party. And the King of the North is often indecisive.