I would think hard about my policy priorities and then sit down with some economists and tax experts and say "how could we pay for this" before opening my mouth in public but I'm not actually in the running to run the country so what do I know
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It would be nice if at any stage of this process Burnham had sat down for a hour and looked at the government's current spending plans for the next few years.
If he'd done this, he might not have spent so much time recently actively sabotaging his own prospects as prime minister.
