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“The Scottish Parliament election saw them win just 17 seats, its lowest in the history of devolution”
“In his speech Burnham said he wanted to enable all parts of the UK to take "greater public control" of the water and energy sectors, with the government producing 10-year plans to reduce costs.”
“Bill and Melinda Gates gave a combined $100,000 to Kristof's abortive 2022 Oregon gubernatorial campaign, gifts Kristof did not acknowledge in his columns praising the former couple.”
“Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election, comfortably and decisively.”
“He has also called for the entire 10-year £39bn affordable housing budget for England towards homes for social rent”
“The Obama administration... Private experts repeated similar warnings. 'Of all the things that could kill 10 million people or more, by far the most likely is an epidemic,' Bill Gates warned in 2015.”
“Burnham has already cleared the threshold (81 Labour MPs) required to trigger a contest, I gather”
“he also said he wanted to "have a proper look" at potentially raising the £12,570 starting threshold for income tax.”
“20 NewsGuard executives and advisers contributed to Democratic candidates between 2015 and 2022, while just 6 gave to Republicans”
“Burnham plans to present Starmer with over 200 names, including those of front benchers who would resign”
“an idea he has been advocating since as far back as 2010.”
“Steven Brill, suggested in 2020 that the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story was a 'hoax'”
“Anna Turley, chair of the Labour Party, wrote privately to cabinet ministers this week asking them to submit detailed reports of what their department has done to “improve the lives of working people”, due today (Friday).”
“In a speech in 2023, he suggested this could be funded by replacing inheritance tax with a new "national care levy".”
“Gene Hamilton, the president of America First Legal, which in 2025 released documents showing ties between NewsGuard and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center”
“The Prime Minister was on TV this morning confirming he will stand if there is a contest”
“commissioned a review of funding that is not due to report until 2028.”
“60th birthday party”
“used a lunchtime call with Labour staff members to warn Andy Burnham against “plunging our party and our country into chaos””
“The 56 year-old has said he would like the UK to rejoin the EU within his lifetime, but he did not want to "re-run the [2016] referendum now".”
“The Prime Minister’s allies have been arguing to party members and MPs that ousting him would be playing into the hands of the right-wing press and parties who have wanted to see Starmer brought down from day one. … Starmer … said the part…”
“as soon as mid‑July”
“The Prime Minister was on TV this morning confirming he will stand if there is a contest, and used a lunchtime call with Labour staff members to warn Andy Burnham against “plunging our party and our country into chaos””
“between 100,000 and 150,000 homes annually, around 10 times the rate of more recent years”
“The Prime Minister was on TV this morning confirming he will stand if there is a contest, and used a lunchtime call with Labour staff members to warn Andy Burnham against “plunging our party and our country into chaos”, although he did not…”
“the entire 10-year £39bn affordable housing budget for England”
“Harold Wilson had stepped down in March 1976”
“£12,570 starting threshold”
“The series was conceived on the night of the February 1974 general election that returned Wilson to office”
“around £17bn in additional funding by 2035/36”
“Griffiths’s unforgiving perspective on Labour history was evidently inspired by a leading figure in the extra-parliamentary left, Ralph Miliband, author of Parliamentary Socialism, first published in 1961.”
“around £7bn by 2035/36”
“In the book’s second edition, reflecting on the Wilson governments of 1964–70, Miliband wrote that “Left parliamentarians operate within the rules of a game designed to limit their capacity””
“cut in business rates for pubs and music venues by 20%”
“In the summer of 1976, as the postwar consensus began to crack in the heat, ITV gave its viewers the balm of a primetime drama about the structure of the labour movement and the prospects for socialism within the parliamentary system.”
“Harold Wilson had stepped down in March 1976 – and the fictional left’s challenger is equally identifiable as Michael Foot.”
“The series was conceived on the night of the February 1974 general election that returned Wilson to office, when Griffiths met Stella Richman, a former London Weekend Television executive.”
“in which representatives of the extra-parliamentary left gather at the home of a television producer during the events of May 1968 and set out their ideological stalls – it was Laurence Olivier’s last stage performance.”
“author of Parliamentary Socialism, first published in 1961.”
“In the book’s second edition, reflecting on the Wilson governments of 1964–70, Miliband wrote that “Left parliamentarians operate within the rules of a game designed to limit their capacity” and could not be expected to achieve socialism t…”
“Having begun on 7 June, Bill Brand ended in mid-August, two weeks before the heatwave broke, and six before the Labour Party conference that marked, to use the title of Robert Skidelsky’s book, the end of the Keynesian era.”
“This is what Bill would be up against in 1979.”
“The Greater Manchester mayor won 55 per cent of the vote, with 24,937 votes.”
“His nearest rival, Reform’s Robert Kenyon, got 15,696 votes (35 per cent of the vote)”
“leaving Burnham with a majority of 9,231.”
“The combined vote of Reform and Restore was 42 per cent”
“But the party scored just 3,111 votes, or 7 per cent.”
“Burnham won by a bigger majority than Labour managed here in its 2024 general election landslide.”
“Burnham acknowledged that voters from the Greens, Liberal Democrats and Tories had leant their votes to him in the by-election after it became clear that the Green and Lib Dem votes had collapsed compared to the last general election, drop…”
“Burnham now has the numbers to launch a challenge – 81 Labour MPs, or 20 per cent of the parliamentary party – if he chose to”
“55 per cent of the vote, with 24,937 votes.”
“15,696 votes (35 per cent of the vote)”
“3,111 votes, or 7 per cent.”
“42 per cent, 13 points less than Burnham.”
“majority of 9,231.”
“81 Labour MPs, or 20 per cent of the parliamentary party”
“Nominations from 20 per cent of Labour MPs – 81 in this case – are required to trigger a leadership race under Labour Party rules.”
“Some are “80 per cent there” and are likely to be added to the spreadsheet of Burnham backers after the Makerfield result, one insider said.”
“Andy Burnham has crossed the threshold of Labour MP nominations required to formally trigger a Labour leadership contest, according to three sources close to the matter”
“Nominations from 20 per cent of Labour MPs – 81 in this case – are required to trigger a leadership race under Labour Party rules. Burnham has crossed the threshold following a secretive ring-round operation in recent weeks...”
“Burnham has no plans to trigger a contest on Friday or over the weekend, but is ready with a list of supporters he can show to Starmer.”
“Nigel Farage’s party secured 50 per cent of the vote compared to Labour’s 25 per cent.”
“The Makerfield constituency polls put Andy Burnham ahead by between 5-12 points.”
“If we don’t factor for Andy Burnham or tactical voting, our model has Reform winning this by 14 points.”
“But factor only for that apparent Burnham effect (as first demonstrated through the Survation for Datapraxis research) and you end up with Burnham winning the race by 2 points.”
“Add tactical voting into the mix and that Burnham lead grows to 3 points”
“and factor for Restore Britain on top of that and Burnham’s lead grows to more than 5 points.”
“Now here’s the honest uncertainty. The presence of Burnham on the ballot paper, the most-liked politician in British politics right now, may skew and exaggerate the enthusiasm for him at the expense of everyone else. To what degree voters …”
“Ailbhe Rea quotes an insider in Andy Burnham’s team saying that his operation is run by two “northern queens” – Louise Haigh and Anneliese Midgley.”
“Reading Will Dunn’s Sketch on the Makerfield by-election and the possibility of two plumbers gracing the benches of the House of Commons, I could not help wondering what the great parliamentarian Tony Benn would have made of it.”
“I have only once criticised her publicly, ten years ago, and for a very specific reason.”
“he promised to deport 150,000 people per year.”
“68 per cent as polled by Ipsos”
“he said it would involve just an extra £800m on immigration enforcement”
“he promised to deport 150,000 people per year”
“it would involve just an extra £800m on immigration enforcement”
“promised to deport 150,000 people per year.”
“the number of people coming into Britain from non-EU countries rose to over a million a year.”
“more than one in five Britons consider immigration (legal and illegal) as the top political issue”
“the Rwanda plan, for context, cost £700m and deported a total of four people.”
“In the US, Ice recently received $73.3bn in additional funding.”
“(68 per cent as polled by Ipsos)”
“just over a month”
“the shadow energy secretary used most of her 6-questions to push Lammy on the issue.”
“the Deputy PM pointed out that it was only three years ago that the Conservatives were champions of net zero”
“During her six questions, Coutinho laughed: “If the Manchester mayor gets his way, I’m pretty sure half of the front bench are going to be getting a pay cut pretty soon.””
“As a result, the shadow energy secretary used most of her 6-questions to push Lammy on the issue.”
“it was only three years ago that the Conservatives were champions of net zero”
“The instrument, which comes into force this week, changes the vote from first past the post back to the supplementary vote system by which Burnham was elected in his first two contests in Manchester.”
“The Conservative government changed the mayoral election system to first-past-the-post before the last contest in 2024, which Burnham still won by a large margin.”
“If Burnham is elected as MP for Makerfield, he must resign his mayoralty before he can take up his seat in the Commons. The NEC is considering how to proceed if the race is triggered immediately on Friday.”
“Instead, the preferred option is for the NEC to draw up a shortlist of one candidate who will then go forward and begin campaigning almost immediately in the week after Burnham’s by-election win.”
“Nigel Farage’s party will fight hard to win the mayoralty, bouncing off the energy of its Makerfield campaign...”
“if Burnham loses to Reform’s Robert Kenyon on Thursday, he will simply carry on as mayor and there will be no election”
“I would just gently point out that we do have a Manchester mayoralty by-election which will follow immediately on if Andy Burnham wins the by-election.”
“It will be the horrible hangover after the party if Andy wins in Makerfield”
“If Burnham is elected as MP for Makerfield, he must resign his mayoralty before he can take up his seat in the Commons.”
“It is said that Gary Neville, football commentator and former Manchester United right-back, was asked to consider a tilt but turned it down.”
“Ed Balls is another that was briefly puffed up then pulled down by the rumour mill.”
“But Bev Craig, the current leader of Manchester City Council, is the broad favourite to take up the candidacy and is understood to be preparing a run.”
