Andy pander

IT’S taken less than two months for Andy Burnham to show he has no more grip on either welfare spending or defence than his useless predecessor.

“,” he told his gleeful backbenchers in the Commons yesterday.

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As a moment of political self-harm, it was right up there with during the -era about MPs constantly asking: “Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?”

Any hope that Burnham might ever put our security above endless has been well and truly blown up.

The PM lacks the courage to do the right thing and re-arm in the face of global threats. Clearly, he is just as terrified of his own left-wing MPs as Sir Keir Starmer was.

Starmer wasted two years avoiding tackling the giant

Burnham looks set to do the same on defence — kicking the tough choices needed to get to three per cent of GDP on military spending until NEXT SUMMER.

Yesterday’s debacle also included a renewed vow to spend billions on giving away the , despite the cash coming from

How depressing. And how very familiar.

Narrow escape

THE Prime Minister got into a huge mess this summer over the early release of two of the killers of PC Andrew Harper.

Today, The Sun reveals exactly why one of them,

Prison records show he was listed as a “sex offender”, remains a danger to female prison officers, is a racist, and is so violent he is housed at maximum- security jail HMP Frankland alongside terrorists and murderers.

It raises a terrifying question: if a sick lowlife like Bowers was almost let out, who ELSE is being freed on to our streets?

Labour’s dangerous early prison release is putting the public at massive risk.

Flightmare

AFTER three massive shutdowns in as many years causing misery and delays for tens of thousands of travellers, the Government says it STILL has confidence in the boss of Britain’s air traffic control.

Airline chiefs who have lost millions in the latest debacle are furious that Transport Secretary has backed NATS boss Martin Rolfe.

So far, she seems is the right man to ensure this will never happen again, despite it already having happened again and again on his watch.

Incredibly, Rolfe still seems to have friends in high places. Yet his passengers can’t get off the ground.