Pressure grows on Starmer as ex-minister says Burnham has ‘earned right’ to challenge for leadership – UK politics live

Jess Phillips, who quit as a minister last month, says Andy Burnham has proven he can beat Reform UKCabinet loyalists tell Starmer he has the weekend to set out timetable for exit‘Within 10 mins, he’d nicked it’: illustrator on his ubiquitous image of BurnhamBeccy Cooper, Labour MP for Worthing West backing Andy Burnham, said he is “not the messiah” and insisted that “this doesn’t rest just on one person”.Speaking to Times Radio, she argued that a Burnham-led government would “still be a Labour government” and would stick to the party’s manifesto because “that’s what people voted for”. Continue reading...