Andy Burnham's By-Election Victory Sets Up Labour Leadership Challenge Against Keir Starmer
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Helen Lewis
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Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, has won a special parliamentary by-election in Makerfield, positioning himself as a strong challenger to incumbent Labour leader Keir Starmer. The article analyzes Burnham's long-standing ambition to lead the Labour Party, Starmer's deep unpopularity, and the by-election results as both a referendum on Starmer's leadership and a test of Burnham's ability to defeat the radical right. Burnham won decisively and is expected to challenge Starmer for party leadership almost immediately.
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· 3 pulledAndy Burnham has wanted to lead the Labour Party for more than a decade, and now the deep unpopularity of the incumbent, Keir Starmer, has created a path to Downing Street for the Manchester mayor.
Yesterday in Makerfield, a constituency outside Manchester in northern England, Burnham won a special parliamentary election that basically everyone understood to be both a referendum on Starmer's leadership and a test of his own ability to defeat the radical right.
He won the by-election in a blowout, and is expected to challenge Starmer almost immediately.
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