The day I met Andy Burnham, by KATIE HIND: Our new PM was a proud ladies' man who boasted of 'lots of girlfriends', let me check for mascara on his famous eyelashes and couldn't stop name-dropping his celebrity friends

It was the summer of 2010 and, mere weeks after Labour had been booted from power, X Factor fever was sweeping Britain.

The day I met Andy Burnham, by KATIE HIND: Our new PM was a proud ladies' man who boasted of 'lots of girlfriends', let me check for mascara on his famous eyelashes and couldn't stop name-dropping his celebrity friends
It was the summer of 2010 and, mere weeks after Labour had been booted from power, X Factor fever was sweeping Britain.