Who is Kemi kidding?

There was a marked late-Soviet quality to the conference speeches made by Britain’s political leaders, as they addressed the dwindling ranks of party faithful and lobby nomenklatura. Presenting himself as “an outsider from the Westminster club”, come to shake up the tired regime at the centre with the folksy wisdom of the Northwest, Andy Burnham is not quite that former First Secretary of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Boris Yeltsin, whose reputation rested on a solid record of…