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If you're going to get angry every time Labour don't walk into an elephant trap, you're in for long few years.
Here's what should happen.
1. Andy Burnham should resign as Mayor of Greater Manchester. He clearly doesn't want the job and Labour can get on with the election. No need to find a replacement, that's the NEC's job.
3. If they don't, fine: wait until a by-election happens and the NEC should let Burnham contest given he will then be a free agent.
If he wins, get the numbers again and challenge.
We have now reached the point where we're talking about asking Gary Neville to become Mayor of Greater Manchester to backfill the King of the North when he finds a seat.
NEW: Leadership timelines:
** There is no contest at the moment, and will not be until 81 names are submitted to the NEC
** Wes Streeting has specifically asked for a long contest, that allows Andy Burnham to stand.
** If this happens, this is likely to mean it concludes around conference at the end of September
** In the first instance, No10 likely to emphasise there is no contest underway. But if it formally begins, will No10 press for a quicker resolution - the PM ++could++ make the argument it's in the national interest to get this over with.
** Andy Burnham could forward with a constituency name today; if he triggers the contest, then nominations would have to stay open for 6/7 weeks while he gets an MP - if he wins the vote
** Some NEC members want Team Burnham to put forward a plan for the Manchester Metro Mayor job that doesn't involve installing a sitting MP. Gary Neville is a name that some talk about, but I'm told he may not have been approaches so could be utterly wishful thinking.
My 81 MPs? You wouldn't know them, they go to another school.
Keir should stay until someone is actually popular enough out to mount a challenge.
The fact that they are all struggling does not speak highly of their ability to win a contest let alone an election.
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This was a paid for advert by Reform - expect them to claim victory
Less than two years into government and we are reverting to type
Ramsay McDonald, Tony Blair and now we are doing it with Keir Starmer
Perhaps we will never learn
Yet again - this about "ideas" but unable or unwilling to say which ideas would have made a difference to polling.
I've been joking on here but that's because I'm so angry that we are risking the first Labour govt. in 14 years 3 years out from an election
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Lots of good news stories like this at present!
The UK's relative strength in terms of venture capital investment, and how to build on it, probably ought to feature more heavily in the economic debate (might be easier when the politics calms down)
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The Guardian is reporting Angela Rayner has now paid £40,000 of extra stamp duty, but HMRC accepted she wasn't "careless" and so she didn't pay a penalty.
On the public facts, that’s hard to understand.
Here’s why:
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When I was first elected, experts warned it would take nearly 200 years for London’s air pollution to fall within legal limits.
We did it in 9 💚
Good to speak to the Guardian about why bold climate action has been at the heart of my decade as Mayor ⬇️
theguardian.com/politics/202…
This is embarrassing - and extremely patronising to the voters he's assuming will roll out the red carpet for the King of the North.
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NEW: 114 Labour MPs have now backed Keir Starmer, with more expected today according to organisers. New names ⬇️
Jacob Collier
Darren Paffey
Andrew Ranger
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Growing the economy will lead to improvements in people’s standard of living after 14 years of Tory stagnation when, household incomes flatlined or went down. People need hope for the future, not a return to Tory austerity.
