Chris Gray

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

Now, Labour Together was the think tank that was widely credited for propelling Keir Starmer into number 10 and doing all of the preparation work behind it.

Fair enough, Josh Simons took over a little bit later than the heart of that operation, but that's the background.

He was given a job in... He was a minister.

He had to quit that job because of all the controversy over the actions of Labour Together, the think tank, when he had been there as part of it.

So he's not the kind of person that people thought would suddenly lean in to seemingly support Andy Burnham by stepping aside and giving up his seat, even though he had come out a couple of days earlier...

and said that he did think it was time for Keir Starmer to go.

So that's like another kind of little curveball in it.

And that's prompted a whole lot of speculation.

And it is speculation, I should really stress, about whether or not people in the broadest of broad terms on the right of the Labour Party...

are actually working with supporters of the left or the soft left who might lean towards Andy Burnham to try and kind of have some sort of, you know, joint coronation and save some sort of strange battle.

Now, it's worth saying that lots of folk are disputing that or denying that or whatever.

But I think given that, we'll talk about West Streeting in a moment, but the nature of the way that West Streeting didn't leap over to challenge Keir Starmer directly and suggested there should be a contest with the broad field and as many candidates as possible involved,

Seems now that the party is coalescing around the notion, at least, that Andy Burnham's going to be on the pitch.

There's a couple of things to note on that.

I think you're right, Adam, to read the sentiment from some of those letters and statements about the need for people just to take a breath and step back.

But I think there's something else, which is the growing awareness of how all of this is going to land with the public.

And I think, you know, yeah, you've heard that from Labour MPs who've been acutely conscious of that already up to this point and have expressed it quite openly.

In the Prime Minister's letter, there was a line that stood out to me.

This is his letter to West Street in response to his resignation saying,

when he said a reminder of what he called the chaos of the Conservatives when they changed leader and how much damage, in his view, that that did.

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