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Starmer Should Set Out a Timetable if Burnham Wins by-Election, Streeting Says
Polls show Andy Burnham leading as Labour ministers and MPs campaign in the seat after Josh Simons quit.
- Wes Streeting urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to announce his departure on Friday if Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election on Thursday.
- The Makerfield contest was triggered by former minister Josh Simons quitting his seat to open a path for Burnham's return to the Commons.
- Streeting claims the support of 80 Labour MPs for a leadership bid, though Burnham would require 81 nominations to officially mount a challenge.
- Starmer insisted he would "carry on with what I was elected to do," ruling out an early general election despite threats to his leadership.
- While polls favor Burnham, Reform UK candidate Robert Kenyon remains his nearest challenger in Thursday's by-election race.
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Starmer: Burnham leadership challenge would "throw the country into chaos"
In the latest instalment of the poorly-written melodrama that is Starmer’s Labour, the PM has warned Andy Burnham that a leadership challenge would “throw the country into chaos”. However, speaking on ITV’s This Morning, he also stated that: If there is a challenge, I will fight. I’m not going to walk away from this. We won a landslide victory just two years ago with a clear mandate to change the country, that’s a five-year mandate. ‘I always sa…
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Total News Sources12
Leaning Left6Leaning Right1Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution60% Left
Bias Distribution
- 60% of the sources lean Left
60% Left
L 60%
C 30%
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