Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch launched a sharp attack on Andy Burnham, challenging the new Prime Minister over what she characterised as a string of unravelling policies since he took office. Her intervention, delivered with the pointed question "Is that it?", signals an early and combative start to the opposition's scrutiny of Burnham's government as it beds in.

Details of the article's full contents are limited, but related coverage indicates Burnham is facing pressure on several fronts, including a backlash over proposed plans to release police killers from prison early, which has been condemned by the widow of murdered PC Andrew Harper as "deplorable" soft justice. Badenoch's criticism appears to form part of a broader Conservative push to portray the new administration as struggling to deliver on its early promises.