It was back to the future in the House of Commons today. After their weeks of backslapping and self-delusion, MPs were back in parliament and indulging in a full-blown nostalgia overload. That’s right – traumatic for those of us who had to report on it and downright tedious for everyone else – the Brexit wars were back. 

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Burnham had spent the last week focused on foreign affairs, including a trip to the UN. But he’d also found time to go on the Rest is Politics podcast for a cosy fireside chat with the Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose of Centrist Broadcasting Delusion. Brexit has been an absolute godsend for Campbell and Rory Stewart, enabling them to whitewash their reputations as a monster and a wet respectively and create a sort of Year Zero approach to British politics post-2016. Burnham stumbled head over heels into this conceit and ended up blathering about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. 

Unsurprisingly this has provoked some questions and so the Prime Minister had come to the House to sort of address them. I say ‘sort of’, as Burnham didn’t go as far as to repeat his claims about Brexit or Russia to the House (presumably because they aren’t true). Instead he tried to claim he was actually worried about security for farmers and migration (firsts for a Labour leader if........

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