Why do you think Andy Burnham would be a good Prime Minister?

It will be interesting who is willing to report his history of covering up the grooming gangs.

He seems like a good bloke and plenty of charisma but we may never know whether he'll be better. The visceral hatred for Keir Starmer has been created by the right wing press. It's the old "divide and rule" trick. Reform will get in by the backdoor.

Yes because he’s tall

as someone said in a similar thread, his main selling point is that he can be easily made from Lego

Andy is amazing.

This whole thing has dragged on for so long that I can't even remember what Keir Starmer has supposedly done wrong. Add another 25-35 working days to arrange a by-election once Josh Whoosey has stepped down, and everyone will have lost interest. The media really should have hyped an existing MP as a potential challenger, like Catherine West Ed Miliband Wes Streeting Angela Rayner Shabana Mahmood ...

Oh, wait.

I wish someone would think of the real victims here, for a change: Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart have had to do so many Emergency Podcasts the poor things must be exhausted!!

I think it's the media trying to create an exciting narrative.

I don't think he would make a better Prime Minister at all. Nothing I've seen from him tells me he can make tough decisions about the long-term future of the UK, he just speaks well to the media and looks like a nice guy.

It's infuriating that the Press has created this whole drama for the 24-hour news cycle. The UK needs to adapt to the future in very chaotic global conditions. This needs a long-term approach which the current PM is trying to address, but because it's boring with not much to show in the short term, the Press, and then the public, start craving a bit more drama.

I sincerely hope Andy Burnham rethinks this whole mess. He might have been a good candidate to take over if Starmer stepped down in a few years, but now is not the right time, and he is likely to ruin his reputation and chances forever if it all goes wrong (reform gets in, or he loses in a leadership contest to KS). Streeting has just ruined his own reputation and chances by doing the same

I don’t. I’m bemused by his saintly status. So interested in what his fans think.

At the end of the day the media will decide, just like the media has decided Keir Starmers fate. It's just so depressing that press barons still rule.

He's got more charisma is the only thing. You can't learn charisma.

We have the most principled Prime Minister since Gordon Brown, a man who genuinely wants to make a difference, and yet he's out because he hasn't got any charisma.