My Times column this week takes on a question I won’t claim to have answered, because only Andy Burnham can. Who’ll be his chancellor? You should, as ever, subscribe to read the piece in full. The first thing I should say about this column is that it was written before Shabana Mahmood – who I name alongside Ed Miliband as one of the two leading candidates for No 11 – tried to brief Mike Tapp out of his job as immigration minister, only to be rebuffed by Downing Street.