It is quickly becoming clear that when he talks airily of being a Prime Minister who intends to govern for ‘all of Britain’, he’s not talking about anywhere south of the Watford Gap. All that hard work cannot go unpunished by a Labour Prime Minister who appears to have a chip the size of the Isle of Wight on his shoulder. When is someone going to tell him he’s the Prime Minister, not playing the tambourine in The Smiths? When is someone going to tell him he’s the Prime Minister, not playing the tambourine in The Smiths? Burnham’s real problem is that he has spent so long being the Labour Party’s political heartthrob, becoming an effective Prime Minister is going to be really hard for him.