Luke Marsden

ALT The Tory leader turned her fire on Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh: “She is only in the job because the Culture Secretary turned it down.” It was a reference to a stunning line in the FT that Burnham had originally offered the Energy job to Lisa Nandy, who had refused to leave the Department of Culture. This was startling because Nandy has spent two years showing no interest whatever in her brief and expressing vocal contempt for pretty much everyone involved in Britain’s £130 billion cultural sector. The best explanation for her behaviour is that she’s learned there’s treasure buried under the department’s offices, and she’s spending her evenings trying to dig it up.