Burnham expected to arrive at the Palace shortly…
Starmer promising to offer his “full support” to Andy Burnham. The kiss of death…
Off to see the King…
Rapturous applause for the man they dragged out of Downing Street, kicking and screaming…
Starmer has returned from yet another social media sabbatical only to be met with a tsunami of troll comments. Some are more creative than others…
Starmer would often retreat from TikTok whenever his premiership was in mortal danger. His blackouts grew more frequent in recent months, for obvious reasons. Who knows how much longer the account will survive, now that his attempt to ‘go where the voters are’ via weird videos achieved nothing…
Timestamps embedded in Andy Burnham’s leadership campaign site source code reveal his team set up the site on 6th May, even before the local election bloodbath that terminally damaged Starmer’s premiership. Obviously he knew which way the wind was blowing and wasn’t wasting any time…
It was also eight days before Josh Simons stood down to make way for Burnham’s candidacy in Makerfield. Which gives an idea of the timeline in the lead up to their pact.
The source code shows he previously considered “For the People” as his slogan, identical to the one used by Kamala Harris’s doomed presidential campaign. At least Burnham’s plot to grab the top job is likely to work…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”