Recalled Jack Clifford hopes to shoulder England’s No8 burden under Eddie Jones

The Harlequins player benefited from Billy Vunipola’s injury in returning to Eddie Jones’s squad and now wants to cement his international placeIf James Haskell is “halfway down a cliff, holding on to a shrub” when it comes to his England ambitions, as the Wasps flanker remarked this week, it is less clear where Jack Clifford is positioned on the precipice.The 24-year-old Harlequin was identified by Eddie Jones early in his tenure as one of the leading candidates for the No7 jersey, only for Haskell to find the kind of form that made him impossible to leave out. Clifford then slipped further b…