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Andy Burnham: Exit comes as surprise.
It is one of the great frustrations of the music industry, and especially those whose day-to-day job is dealing with the goings-on at Westminster, that just when one Secretary of State has been fully brought up to speed and lobbied about the key issues facing the business he then leaves his post and the whole process has to start again with a new arrival.
And so it goes with Andy Burnham, whose 16-month tenure as Culture Secretary, which came to an end in last Friday's Cabinet reshuffle, should be regarded as being a very positive one by the business.
His exit comes as something of a surprise, and we were certainly not expecting when he agreed to speak at our Making Online Music Pay conference last week that the event would be the last one at which he addressed a music industry audience. It came just a day after the man he is to succeed as ...
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