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Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow for Burnham

Makerfield byelection, complicating Andy Burnham’s potential route back to parliament against what is expected to be a strong Reform UK challenge

Will Starmer go – and if so, how? Four scenarios in the battle for No 10

challenge, Starmer could fight them – and he could then win a vote of Labour members. 2. --- ## 2. A contest with Burnham back If Downing Street allows the Labour machine to endorse Burnham as the candidate

Andy Burnham will push to become PM before Labour conference, allies say

challenging Starmer, gave his backing to Burnham standing on Friday, saying: “We need our best players on the pitch. There is no doubt that Andy Burnham is one of them.” It is still possible that

Starmer ally admits prime minister is ‘unpopular’ but warns of ‘chaos’ if leadership contest triggered – UK politics live

challenge”** and hit out at the **“internal-facing nonsense”** plaguing the party. He told the BBC: “If people wanted to gather the nominations then it’s open for them to do that – they would need

Pound heads for worst week in 18 months as Burnham lines up Labour bid

Makerfield. “The pound is weakening this morning after a sharp drop on Thursday, when [Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham) threw his hat into the ring,” said Kathleen Brooks, the research director at XTB. “This

How team Burnham finally cleared the first of many hurdles on route to Westminster

challenge. Locked out of parliament, Burnham seemed to be no further on than when he made his last leadership tilt, which was ended by the Labour national executive committee’s [refusal