Amanda Gillies

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The Detail · New Zealand's game of political chess · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

just continued grumblings and sort of issues within.

And eventually we've had Andy Burnham rise to the top of the candidates to replace.

Unfortunately for him, he wasn't in Parliament.

So you can't just wander in and say, I'll be prime minister.

You have to find a way in.

He was lucky enough that he found a Labour seat holder in Makerfield, which is up around the north of Manchester, around the Wigan area.

who was sort of on Andy Burnham's side and saw him as a future Prime Minister option, who stepped aside, causing a by-election, allowing Andy Burnham to step in.

And the rest is history, so to speak, with Andy Burnham winning that by-election the other day.

They have voted for hope.

Now let's give that back to them.

So that's how this has all sort of played out.

How remarkable is it though for a sitting MP to go, right, I'm giving this up and giving it to someone else who's not even in Parliament, who's a mayor, to potentially hopefully become our Prime Minister?

Yeah, it's a really big step.

And the young man who did it, Josh Simons, he was a brand new MP.

This was his chance to sort of press on and be something down the track.

So it's a really remarkable thing on a personal level for someone like Simons to step aside effectively and give up.

what he had just earned.

So it's a fairly sizable hat on the back for Andy Burnham, having this young man who had his whole parliamentary future ahead of him saying, no, no, I'll give it up for you.

I hope he can somehow come back into Parliament with that sort of attitude.

But Burnham's rise, his return to Parliament, is this, would you think, a case study or something similar to that in strategic political manoeuvring?

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