Wes Streeting withdraws from impending leadership race and backs Burnham
Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting will no longer stand to become Labour leader and has endorsed Andy Burnham…
Andy Burnham
What would Andy Burnham do if he becomes Prime Minister?
Prospective leadership contender and newly-elected MP for Makerfield Andy Burnham has already begun to set out his vision…
Andy Burnham elected MP for Makerfield with over 54 per cent of the vote
Andy Burnham will return to Westminster after winning the Makerfield by-election winning 24,937 to Reform’s Rob Kenyon on…
This is not a normal by-election
I know from my inbox that Labour members have mixed views about whether or not, were he to…
Makerfield voters want Burnham over Starmer in Number 10, poll finds
More than half of voters in Makerfield, including nine in ten Labour supporters, would prefer to see Andy…
‘A lesson from Makerfield: voters know Rupert Lowe, but not Labour’s immigration reforms’
The very first person I approached in the very first place I visited in Makerfield set the tone…
‘Ready to go?’
Politics is so often about balancing competing tensions. Often that means dealing with competing policy priorities. Policies that…
Labour should seize the moment in Makerfield
It may have come as no surprise (especially to us at LabourList), but Andy Burnham was on top…
‘Making policy for people – Burnham v Farage’
Governments succeed when policy starts with real lives rather than abstract ideology. Too often Westminster only notices social…
Andy Burnham is now Labour’s Makerfield by-election candidate. What happens next?
Andy Burnham has been confirmed as Labour’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election. The Mayor of Greater Manchester had…
