Britain’s parties are addicted to control – and it’s breaking politics

The tales of Suella Braverman and Andy Burnham are two sides of the same coin.

Burnham and Braverman have dominated political headlines in recent days, what does it tell us?

Welcome to British politics: where power is hoarded, managed and protected, but rarely wielded.

The country is in the grip of a dispiriting paradox. At a moment when the public is crying out for delivery and seriousness, the parties that govern them are being ea…