George Parker

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256 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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The Claire Byrne Show · Keir Starmer facing further pressure on his premiership · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

And I think this formal investigation won't be launched this afternoon.

Well, the context of all this is there's a very, very difficult set of elections coming up for the Labour Party on the 7th of May in Scotland, Wales, English councils.

We're expecting the Labour Party to get an absolute hammering

annihilated in some parts of the country.

Then the question arises, is the Labour Party going to say enough's enough and pull the plug on Keir Starmer?

The balance of the party is on what you would call the soft left side of the party and the two obvious candidates on that side of the party are Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham.

The problem is neither of them are ready to run for different reasons.

Angela Rayner, because she has an unsettled tax dispute with the HM Revenue and Customs, which is a

Andy Burnham, of course, is the mayor of Greater Manchester and isn't an MP, so isn't eligible to stand.

So, although the Labour Party will be in a state of high anxiety after the results come in on May the 7th, the question is, will they be prepared to try to start the process to remove Keir Starmer

when their preferred candidates are out of the running?

I think that's the big question that nobody knows the answer to.

Andy Burnham's people are certainly very confident that a seat will become available for him to contest in a by-election so that he's in place come the autumn, ready to mount some sort of leadership contest and, you know,

There is talk about finding another seat for him somewhere in the North West.

You remember last time he tried to stand, he was blocked by Keir Starmer's allies on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.

Well, I don't think that's going to happen next time.

It just feels like that moment has passed.

If Andy Burnham wants to stand, I think he'll be allowed to stand.

He then has to win

by-election, of course, which is not always a bygone, a foregone conclusion when you're as unpopular as the Labour Party are at the moment.

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