Turnout 58.75%. 52.4% at the 2024 general election. The second highest in a by-election since 2000…
Burnham got 24,937 votes vs Rob Kenyon’s 15,696. 9,241 majority…
The 2024 Labour majority was 5,399. 997 votes for the Tory…
Rebecca Shepherd of Restore Britain got 3,111 votes.
Team Burnham plans no “rash” action this weekend and will seek to convince Starmer to set out an orderly transition. Game on…
Burnham organiser Louise Haigh said: “We really don’t want to prejudice any kind of discussion, I really hope the PM and Andy can have that discussion and come to an agreement between themselves.” Team Starmer has briefed that he has more than £100,000 in secured cash for a leadership contest. Now the Burnham mob marches on London…
He said to Labour in his speech: “This is a final chance to change.”
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”