Chris Gray

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Newscast · Andy Burnham Makes His Move · 14 May 2026 podcast

Really important context.

But people do often behave differently in by-elections than they do in other elections.

And I think for this by-election in particular, that notion is going to be on steroids.

Because as Chris said, every man and his dog is going to be there.

Every party is going to be throwing everything that they can at it.

This is a by-election, as we say, which is not just for an MP.

Obviously, electing an MP is really important.

This is for the guy that's made no secret about the fact he's standing because he wants to challenge Keir Starmer.

All of those variables, plus the fact that, according to the pollsters, Andy Burnham's personal ratings are better than the Labour Party's more broadly, are all the variables to throw in the mix.

But my goodness, what a test.

And it's worth saying, so he's twice ran for the Labour leadership before, in 2010 when he lost to Ed Miliband, in 2015 when he lost to Jeremy Corbyn.

Yes.

I bumped into a very senior Conservative in Westminster this week who said to me, and obviously they would say this and obviously they would do this, but they said, we're going through the archives and digging out all of the clips.

So he's also going to come in for a lot of opposition from the opposition.

And the point they were making is that there might be quite a fair amount of MPs in Westminster of the 2024 intake of Labour MPs who don't know Andy Burnham.

And so you can bet your bottom dollar that the Conservatives and others, as you might expect they would, are going to be trying to shape that opinion.

And he's

Yeah, and I'm not sure many people thought that it would be Josh Simons who was going to stand aside for Andy Burnham.

And the reason for that is because Josh Simons was the former guy at the head of the top of Labour Together.

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