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Streeting resigns. Although very few people seem to share his belief he should be Prime Minister.
POLL: Streeting Would Lose Head-to-Head Labour Leadership Race Against Starmer
His resignation letter is linked in here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy21gpr1kzt?post=asset%3Aeb2d011b-9432-43a0-82f5-3daac5d5c2d0#postThe more I know the less I understand.
He’s in a marginal seat and could lose it at the next election. He has links with private health companies and is Mandelsons protege. His ability as a good communicator has gone to his head imo.
Streeting is by far the most competent of all the cabinet, by a street.
He’s the one Labour frontbencher that i have the upmost respect for.
He would also tackle the current Welfare free-for-all that’s strangling the country.
Although, unfortunately, the Labour backbenchers are still ‘living off’ their economics uni professors’ teachings, from their student days.If you support him, it’s patently obvious that Streeting would be a disaster.
Thank goodness he won’t get a sniff of the leadership – his standing with the party membership is very low.
Josh Simons, MP for Makerfield, is prepared to stand down and trigger a by-election. Burnham has confirmed he wants to stand.
Majority over Reform at the last election: 5,300.
Also being reputed by reputable sources:
Good: I’m no fan of the current leadership and hope that Burnham would drag Labour back towards its more traditional position. He’d certainly have a far better chance of beating Farage in 2029 than Starmer does.
“He’s in a marginal seat and could lose it at the next election.”
My guess is Streeting will hold the seat.
Labour didn’t actually do too badly in that part of the country last week, certainly when compared to elsewhere. And I suspect a lot of Conservative voters may tactically vote for Streeting, rather than risk an “independent” candidate with not much interest in Ilford winning.
Reform will throw everything at that Makerfield seat.
However, Burnham still has to get the green light, i believe, from Labour’s ‘goons’.Josh Simons, 32. CV: school, university, “researcher”, “policy adviser”, parachuted into Labour seat, quits after less than two years.
Someone with such a vast amount of real world experience will be a grievous loss to the body politic.
Why didn’t Burnham just decide to stand at the last election given that Labour were pretty much guaranteed a win? Hedging his bets?
He probably didn’t expect Starmer to become so unpopular so quickly. I expect his plan was to see out his term as mayor, stand in 2029 in a safe seat and take it from there.
It is a risk by Burnham to stand but maybe he is working on the basis that the combined Reform and Conservative vote in Makerfield would not have beaten Labour in 2024.
The NEC still have to agree to Burnham standing, i believe.
Less than 2 years in, and the rats are squabbling.
With a fairly slim majority, that seat doesnt look particularly safe to me, esp after nearby local elections the other week.
Is Makerfield in the Wigan Metropolitan District Council area that voted last week?
If so, of the 25 seats contested, Labour lost 22 and Reform gained 24.
Josh Simons is the MP who was director of Labour Together, accused of various malpractices, which led to him resigning his junior role in government.
Good luck fighting that seat Andy Burnham…you’ll need it.
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