Nigel Farage spat out his dummy because he wasn’t invited to the PM’s cross-party meeting, and the internet spat out some home truths
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The Daily Mail’s attempted gotcha over the price of Andy Burnham’s Manchester-made T-shirts just qualified for the Self-own of the Week Award – 22 favourite takedowns
Andy Burnham’s “No 10 North” is up and running, complete with replica No 10 Downing Street black door and an onsite Greggs – 18 reactions to put a grin up north
Nigel Farage’s speech about why Andy Burnham needs an election to get a mandate got him owned from Westminster to Clacton – 19 top takedowns
Liz Kershaw trolled the outfit chosen by Andy Burnham’s wife Marie-France van Heel and got all the responses she deserved
Nigel Farage criticised Andy Burnham for relying on notes while speaking, saying he doesn’t need an autocue to tell you what he believes in – and, well, you can guess what happened next
Liz Truss has predicted that Andy Burnham will cause a financial crisis – 17 people mourning the death of irony and self-awareness, may they rest in peace
Kemi Badenoch warned of a ‘summer of chaos’ under Andy Burnham, and 14 years of Tory misrule entered the chat – 15 resounding facepalms
Zia Yusuf demanded a general election because (almost) no-one voted for Andy Burnham and it was a gratuitous self-own visible from space
Nigel Farage said Andy Burnham ‘doesn’t get’ that Britain is broken, and got owned into the sunlit uplands – 19 votes of no confidence
The only thing Donald Trump knows about Andy Burnham is that he was ‘the mayor of a town’, and Greater Manchester is bristling – 18 strong objections
Andy Burnham’s ‘fact check’ after Kemi Badenoch said he was ‘a pair of eyelashes and a black T-shirt’ signals that love it or hate it, there’s a new comms style in town
The live helicopter footage of Andy Burnham arriving in London was already spectacularly British but the payoff to his train journey was beyond next level perfection
Robert Jenrick tried to own Andy Burnham with the old ‘There’s always a tweet’ takedown, and his own post came right back to bite him on the arse
This Tory MP’s heckle of Andy Burnham was good but the PM-in-waiting’s A++ response was even better