Andy Burnham’s leadership ambitions: what is the path to mounting a challenge against Keir Starmer?

By Thomas Caygill, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has triggered a blazing row by telling the Telegraph that MPs want him to mount a leadership challenge against prime minister Keir Starmer.

Starmer’s poll ratings are dire and for some weeks, discussion within some sections of the Labour Party has turned to who is his most likely successor.

Up until early September, the assumption was that it would be Angela Rayner. But her resignation as deputy…

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