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🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham confirms he will seek to run for Parliament in Makerfield I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the country and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. People are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better in its first two years and, after this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in Makerfield, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Josh Simons will resign to trigger a by-election in Makerfield to give Andy Burnham a route back to Parliament

🚨 BREAKING: Wes Streeting has resigned from Keir Starmer's Government

Shouldn’t that be After Environmentalist?

Morgan Gibbs-White has been shortlisted for the @PremierLeague's Player of the Season award! Well deserved, MGW. ❤️

My guide to dealing with a cancer diagnosis

The story of the Geordie Maradona. 📖

@AndrewMcGuinn11 Hang on…never mind the politics-you turned a table over?!

@markdennison I’ve turned a table over in a meeting in less than 5 minutes. So yes 16 minutes is a long time. Depends how long they kept him waiting

Also, “only 16 minutes”?! That’s long meeting in my book

@AndrewMcGuinn11 Thought I’d blocked you?!

@markdennison Meanwhile in skeggy

I think I’ll run…

@chet_45 It’s 4 seasons in one day…which we’ll have had by tea time

@markdennison I can see the carpenters singing it.

Is it autumn now? ☔️🌧️💨🥶

@chet_45 Oh hang on

@chet_45 Good song, though

@markdennison Just a little hailstones now as we pass through our 3rd season of the day.

@chet_45 We need Rich

@markdennison Here a thing, I nipped and purchased a couple of sprinklers yesterday and a timer as I’m over seeding our lawn, says it needs water regularly. Waste of money that turned out to be.

Good Lord..

@NMBLAKE 😆

@markdennison “And we have a caller from Nottingham…”

Another day of “people leaving Number 10”…marvellous.

@NMBLAKE I can hear that line on a radio phone in!

@markdennison I thought Labour following the Tories would be like anyone following Postecogleu…but they’ve made a right old balls up of it