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Well @UKLabour you’ve massively fucked up - over to king of the vague, I need 3 months @AndyBurnhamGM - big big shoes to fill mate. Well done @10DowningStreet Kier Starmer
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M Anthony T
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I think some of Burnhams fan club are going to find the next stage very different to talking to Joan in Makerfield
LBC@LBC
'Don't you see how this looks!?' @BenKentish confronts Labour's Luke Charters on the 'double standard' of Andy Burnham being 'anointed' after he demanded a general election from the Tories.
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@LBC @BenKentish Absolutely nailed him- I think Burnham needs tell him keep his head down in York
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'Don't you see how this looks!?'
@BenKentish confronts Labour's Luke Charters on the 'double standard' of Andy Burnham being 'anointed' after he demanded a general election from the Tories.
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@SamCoatesSky - now you know the reason for the pause ‘bus conductor’
teresa smith@treesey
“Manchester council’s spiky leader, Sir Richard Leese, primus inter pares, took to calling Burnham a “glorified bus conductor” in private’ Glorious, cliché-destroying profile by Jen Williams ft.com/content/9949d9…
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"Andy Burnham looks to move part of Number 10 operations to Manchester" > he should move it all. And Parliament. The strength of the British constitution is flexibility. Would be such a big statement of positivity. Will he be brave enough to try? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac… via @FT
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M Anthony T retweetledi
🚨 Andy Burnham announces plans for "Bee Bonus", a pension top-up payment for retirees in the North, in bid to address regional inequality.
The "Bee Bonus" will be funded by charging VAT on rail season tickets into London.
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@Edwina_Currie Remember all the stick you used to get Edwina. Don’t agree with your politics but honestly they should see what challenge was like!
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You thin-skinned entitled madam!!
You're a senior Minister of the Crown - you should yourself be more dignified than this.
And you should be too damn busy to care.
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Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too. It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer. I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.
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If Andy Burnham wants to string this out until September, perhaps he should try to find a willing sacrificial lamb to stand against him. I'm sure the offer of a cabinet position could persuade somebody.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Understandably the relationship between Downing Street and Team Burnham is strained. Keir Starmer and his probable successor talked yesterday for the first time since before the byelection: I’m told their meeting was “frosty”. Burnham’s camp remains concerned about the short handover timetable - just over three weeks to prepare for government. Starmer allies say he had no qualms about denying Burnham (who originally wanted September) a long coronation - though insist he’s serious about an orderly handover. “There was a strong push from the Burnham camp to be given longer. But why should they tell Keir they want him out, then expect him to manage the ship through a potentially difficult summer? “Keir will of course cooperate on transition, but it will be through gritted teeth,” one ally tells me. Some in Burnham’s team are exasperated about shorter timetable. “The last lot had years to prepare and still fucked it up. We’ll just have to do it in three weeks,” one says. “The length of the transition will focus minds.” theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@frlydensmith @bphillipsonMP @KemiBadenoch Father
Could you offer some counsel to the whole Labour Party of the unknown consequences of upward bullying 🙏
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I think @bphillipsonMP is doing a wonderful job. People may well disagree. She has an extremely important role and so all her policy matters deserve serious debate. But disagreement should not tempt us into contempt in the way @KemiBadenoch showed today.
Democracy depends upon the difficult grace of listening to those with whom we differ and seeking together what serves the common good. Not lashing out with judgment and indignation.
Our children deserve more than partisan triumphalism. They deserve an education that awakens wonder, nurtures character, and enables every young person, whatever their background, to flourish.
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Excellent. While we're at it - let's move Parliament to the NEC while we renovate the building.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will create a "No 10 in the North" that will move parts of the Downing Street operation to Manchester [@FT]
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On @BBCNews I was asked about what @andyburnhamHQ stands for.
I saw in the #MakerfieldByElection how he led a positive campaign of hope and change that enthused hundreds if not thousands of activists plus his record as @AndyBurnhamGM of "Manchesterism" is a positive one!
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There is a part of me that thinks Burnhams team might be sending ideas to the press to test them. This is a very bad idea when people don’t even know the basics of what he thinks
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M Anthony T retweetledi
If there is to be a "No10 in the north" then Inverness is the most obvious location...
Manchester is to the south of ~40% of UK landmass.
George Parker@GeorgeWParker
New: Andy Burnham looking to create “Number 10 in the North” as part of big devolution drive, shifting some operations to Manchester as.ft.com/r/c7e17ec5-32b…
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This is the problem with extrapolating- should have been encouraged to enter parliament and bide his time
YouGov@YouGov
Fresh from Andy Burnham's victory in the Makerfield by-election, the public are divided in their opinion on the man expected to be the next prime minister Favourable: 34% (+4 from 14-15 June) Unfavourable: 38% (-3) Net: -4 (+7) Note: fieldwork largely conducted prior to Starmer's resignation
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@KatieCurtis It was fine - that’s her job and the Labour Party can tlecture no one now over how they conduct themselves
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I can understand why Badenoch was in her element today but I’m not sure how the country will react to such spitefulness #PMQS
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M Anthony T retweetledi
Keir Starmer was treated too harshly as prime minister, that's what 56.8% of people said in a poll about the now-resigned prime minister.
Yesterday, Keir Starmer announced he would be stepping down as prime minister of the UK following mounting pressure for some time on his position from within and outside of his own party.
However, despite his plummeting popularity in the lead up to his resignation, many feel that Starmer may have been treated too harshly.
In a poll of the JOE audience to which 732 people responded, 56.8% of people said that he had been treated too harshly.
This meant 43.2% of people said that he had been treated accordingly.
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Interestingly this was a part of some of the access talks by a senior cabinet member during the last election. Their reasoning was slightly different meaning the Perm Sec wasn’t a fan…
Symbolic and clever. Big fan.
Financial Times@FT
FT exclusive: Andy Burnham is looking to set up a 'Number 10 in the north', moving part of his prime ministerial operation to Manchester, in a radical attempt to shift power beyond Westminster ft.trib.al/RfP4Mfr
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