What does Andy Burnham mean for Scottish Labour?

When you speak privately with Scottish Labour politicians, you’ll struggle to find anyone who defends May’s election campaign.

Words like “disaster” and “catastrophe” come up.

But there’s still a hostility from many towards the idea of breaking away from the UK party.

“Fanciful and reactionary” is how one party figure put it. And another told me it simply wasn’t a practical solution.

A radical move like this would create a lot of complexities when it comes to funding, data, and internal party bureaucracy.

But there’s a feeling it’s being taken more seriously now than in the past.

And certainly the idea of, at the very least, more distance between the UK and Scottish party operations is likely to get a bit more of a hearing in these party review sessions.

But Scottish Labour has already pushed quite far in this direction.

The party has a different symbol and party colour, and in recent years has taken different positions on policies such as winter fuel payments and the two-child benefit cap.

The most common internal complaints that came up in the wake of May’s election results were the unpopularity of Sir Keir, a lack of focus on the second regional vote, and a manifesto that was seen by many to play it a bit too safe.

In terms of the latter two, it’s hard to see how they would have been different if Scottish Labour was a truly separate party.

This will all be chewed over when candidates and activists meet to discuss the election campaign.