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NEW: Cabinet ministers are scrambling to secure positions in a future Andy Burnham government after his selection triggered what one Labour insider described as a full-scale “race for jobs” inside the party. Senior ministers are preparing visits to Makerfield amid growing expectations in Westminster that Burnham could ultimately take the Labour leadership – and with it the power to appoint the next Cabinet. “The equation cabinet ministers are making is that if they go and he wins they will get a plum job,” one senior source told @theipaper. “If they don’t go and he wins, he will remember. And if they don’t go and he loses, he will remember.” Attention is now focused on whether Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, will go to Makerfield, with MPs viewing her decision as a key test of where loyalties inside the party are shifting. Back in 2015 when Burnham last stood for the Labour leadership, Reeves was among the first Labour MPs to endorse him. Allies say the pair’s relationship was so close that had he been victorious Burnham would have made her his shadow chancellor. Instead, many now believe that Burnham is lining up to make Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, as his chancellor. It comes as Miliband’s special adviser was seconded to work with Burnham for the by-election campaign. A party insider said: “Ed is very protective of his staff. He would never lend them to other people unless he had been guaranteed a fairly significant return favour.” Burnham is also widely expected to make Lucy Powell, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, his deputy prime minister. Multiple sources said that other women likely to be given top jobs include Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, and Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, who is also the co-chair of the influential soft-left Tribune group of MPs. Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, who last week broke ranks and told Sir Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure, is understood to be keen to stay on in her current post. One person who is unlikely to keep their job in the Cabinet, is the attorney general Lord Hermer. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/44261…

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