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Angela Rayner desperately pitches for deputy job under Burnham while pushing more benefits spending Angela Rayner has launched a desperate pitch for a top job under Andy Burnham by boasting about securing billions for housing while defending Labours ballooning benefits bill and opposing any cuts to welfare. The former deputy prime minister who quit over her stamp duty scandal is now positioning herself as the natural number two if Burnham becomes prime minister and takes over from the failing Starmer. Critics say Rayner has form for economic illiteracy and is now openly pushing to keep taxpayers funding an ever growing welfare state at a time when defence spending is under pressure and growth is flatlining. Her speech at the Social Mobility Symposium was seen as a blatant leadership audition in which she tried to paint herself as the champion of working families while ignoring the damage her partys policies are doing to the economy. Burnham is already under fire for courting left wing figures like Ed Miliband and now Rayner appears to be angling for the deputy role to lock in more high spending and Net Zero dogma that has already cost jobs and driven up bills. Many in the party and the City fear that a Burnham Rayner axis would mean even higher taxes bigger government and further economic decline after the chaos of the last two years under Starmer.

🚨 PICTURED: Andy Burnham takes a selfie with Labour MPs

Andy Burnham's allies are objecting to Keir Starmer's determination to publish the Defence Investment Plan, saying that "it's a significant political decision with major national and global implications that was not Sir Keir’s to make". Yes, far better to leave it to a man who hasn't even been an MP for 9 years

I've just learned that Rachel Reeves is in this picture, and she didn’t stand outside No. 10 and clap for the PM after he resigned. Considering she has caused a lot of the bad feeling towards Labour with her useless schemes, you'd have thought she might have shown some loyalty to Starmer, who stood by her through every challenge. Unbelievable treachery.

Hope they are taking minutes, whats app disappearing messages are disengaged and their phones don't get nicked. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

All that’s wrong with British politics summed up in one photo

All that’s wrong with British politics summed up in one photo

Andy Burnham was elected by only 0.03% of the British public. He wasn’t elected under the current Labour manifesto. He has been an MP for only a few hours in this parliament. He would have weakest mandate of ANY potential prime minister in modern history.

Something doesn’t add up at all, how did Andy Burnham win Makerfield, and go on to be guaranteed PM without a manifesto. It’s all fallen in to place perfectly for him, hasn’t it He’s is definitely a plant.

Oh my goodness, it was SO hard to say goodbye to everyone at the GMCA. 🥹 Thank you all for everything. I have loved working with you and will miss you so much. 🙏🏻 You couldn’t have given me a better leaving present! 🙌🏻 🐝🐝🐝

JUST IN 🚨🇬🇧 No.10 says Andy Burnham will begin receiving government briefings and hold meetings with the Cabinet Secretary “as soon as possible.” This signals closer coordination between Downing Street and one of Labour’s most influential regional leaders, as political attention shifts toward internal alignment and governance planning. What does this mean for UK Labour’s internal power balance? ⚡️