Starmer posted:
“Congratulations, Andy Burnham, Labour’s new MP for Makerfield. Voters chose Labour’s campaign of hope and optimism over division and hate.”
The PM failed to do the normal “vote for Labour’s candidate” post on the polling day and failed to show up to Makerfield at any point in the campaign after No10 told hacks that he would. Expensive train tickets…
Harriet Harman – appointed to a No10 role to bolster Starmer after the locals – has now said that the party’s top MPs including Keir and Andy should get together and decide a plan for a coronation of one of them.
Farage said: “It was vote Burnham – get Starmer out… so we were slightly hoisted by our own petard” and added he was “disappointed” with 16,000 votes after he predicted they would get 18,000. “A disappointing morning, but we keep going”…
Lee Anderson, speaking to The Sun’s Tom Scotson, reveals the wokest thing he’s ever done: “I once had a vegetarian thought, about becoming a vegetarian. That was quickly dismissed when I had a bacon sandwich…”