Keir Starmer

But if there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then yes I will run, I will stand.

But if there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then yes, I will run.

I will stand.

This was a very good victory in the by-election and I've sent my congratulations to Andy Byrne and I repeat them here.

I haven't spoken to Andy directly yet, but I will.

There isn't a leadership contest at the moment.

There isn't one at the moment, but as I've said on many, many occasions, I don't think that's a good thing for the country to plunge us into chaos.

I would also add that now that Andy has won, which is really important, really good, he's a huge asset to us, then now will inevitably be a Manchester mayoralty by-election starting straight away.

So it's important that we pull together for that.

But if there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then yes, I will run, I will stand, and I've said repeatedly I'm not going to walk away from that.

There's more to do, and that's what I'm focusing on.

He's turning on reform that they can't now win by elections.

They've reached probably the peak of their support and it's going down.

look at it in the context of other by-elections, that the tide is turning on reform, that they can't now win by-elections.

They've reached probably the peak of their support and it's going down.

So very good.

Congratulations to Andy Burnham.

But actually, tide is turning on reform as well.

So this is really important in that respect.

So he fucking legally changed his name to mountain lion.