Andy Burnham’s first PMQs: here’s what we learned from this bloodless affair

Burnham leaves Number 10 for his first PMQs. Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND For Andy Burnham, walking into the bear pit that is Prime Minister’s Questions, it must have been hard to stay calm. His audience was a room of closely packed MPs, some hostile, some friendly – all very loud – many wanting to make a mark. And the full audience for PMQs extends far beyond the MPs in the chamber. Prime ministers are thinking about the media, external groups, foreign governments, voters…