Burnham faces pressure on multiple fronts as PM

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is facing calls to address rough sleeping, fly-tipping and child poverty, according to the Mirror, while GB News reports a farmer has criticised his support package for agriculture after the driest July on record.

The Sun reports that Burnham's newly appointed Arts Minister was previously sacked by a French theatre after it ran up large debts. Separately, GB News carries a direct appeal from the mother of PC Andrew Harper over the early release of her son's killers.

The competing pressures illustrate the transition from mayoral office to Downing Street - where a leader can vow to tackle issues "ignored by Westminster" while simultaneously being Westminster. The farmer's complaint that the support arrives "too late" raises the question every new government faces: how much of the inherited problem becomes yours, and how quickly.

Burnham left the Greater Manchester mayoralty in late July to become Prime Minister. The criticism from a farmer suggests that moving from regional to national office doesn't insulate a leader from the accusation that central government moves slowly. Whether responding to drought, crime or poverty, the clock resets the day the office changes hands.

Watch whether Burnham uses mayoral precedent - direct intervention, visible presence - or adopts the traditional Downing Street distance. The gap between the two styles is the gap between a mayor who can fix a pothole and a Prime Minister who can't.