Burnham unopposed & likely to be PM by mid July

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Wes Streeting confirms on social media that he won’t stand as a candidate for the Labour leadership. He says that a contest where candidates spent the summer “exaggerating small differences” would not be good for the party or the country, and having spoken to Burnham, he is confident that that there is “a place” for the policies he has been advocating under a Burnham premiership.

The Guardian say this means it is now very, very likely that Burnham will be PM be mid July. It is conceivable that another candidate may come forward. But, apart from Streeting, no one else has publicly signalled an intention to stand, and with Burnham now a shoo-in, it is hard to imagine any other MP getting the support they would need to be a candidate.

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I’m pleased it will happen swiftly. I will give Andy Burnham a chance and I had no time for Wes Streeting personally. But I am a left wing swing voter- so not his audience.

Burnham’s eyelash Tshirt video is pretty good, for a politician.
It is a good thing he was removed from the Westminster bubble for a while, they don’t seem to have much perspective on what is actually relevant right now. Hopefully he can inject some 2026 Manchester buzz at least.

She’s very far from self made. Quite apart from her middle class roots she’s bankrolled by her banker husband. Her back story is very similar to Thatcher’s.

When Starmer’s ‘toolmaker’ line goes with him and Reeves and Phillipson are gone more people will see through those ridiculous comms lines that Labour leant on to get in.

Kemi is an immigrant who came here and is self made, did different things before politics, seems to have an energy and dynamism about her that I guess old school Labour class warriors will find confusing and threatening.
She did not grow up rich, have you been to Nigeria? It was hardly a stable place when she was young.
From her Wiki "Being middle class in Nigeria still meant having no running water or electricity, sometimes taking your own chair to school" and claimed that her family went through "periods of poverty" due to inflation She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother's owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria, which had affected her family.”

She is a black African woman who has made it to the top, deal with it.

Let me repost part of my previous - to see if this doesn’t offend the censors.

Bridget Phillipson's "poverty-stricken childhood" extended to her "poowah mam" buying her council house in February 1990 for £9,600 under the Right to Buy scheme and selling it 30 years later at 1,000% profit.

All this pathetic class nonsense needs to be left in the past where it belongs. If we are ever going to become a forward looking dynamic country, State education had been much improved until Covid hit and the waiting lists were awful, Just fund the SEND crisis and give everyone a chance at a British Dream rather than the perpetual misogynistic Labour Man whine fest. And put the strong women in the party in the key positions, not those the men don’t find threatening because they are weak.

That appears to be a confection.

So I have reposted mine.

Yep. Her success likely makes some feel bad. Why couldn’t they be successful if a black woman can.

He’ll be out at the next GE anyway. After having sufficient time to mess up the country even further. Labour are a joke and they should just call it now

I dug into her past last night. She's full of 💩 💩

Kemi is on fire at the moment. I’m not keen on her initial stance on Iran though which means I’m still politically homeless.

Kemi is absolutely right to tell Bridget to stop with the pointless class warfare. It holds us all back. It is complete nonsense anyway in a country with so many successful immigrants now and mixed backgrounds. My DC now have 3 nationalities, they have very very dirt poor ancestors as well as lauded generals who are part of British history. Who actually cares.

Well, by her own admission, she is a ‘spiteful class warrior’ - that’s simply a statement of fact.

The point though is stop trying to fit people into narrow white British class stereotypes when there is so much diversity now and everyone counts and most people do not even fit into your narrow outdated stereotypes from the 1970s anymore anyway. Suck it up, society has changed, not anyone’s problem that Labour are stuck in the past.

"don't like it up them" Kemi Badenoch, 24/06/2026. House of Commons

I was surprised at that and had to laugh.

Yep Labour are still very pair, male, stale when it come to leadership too. Very stuck in the past.

Boris used the same phrase in 2021.

Why have you ignored that?

Sad day for democracy really ...

Evidently, its OK if a white male says it….

@Araminta1003 most people do not even fit into your narrow outdated stereotypes from the 1970s anymore anyway

My father used to watch Dad’s Army, it became very stale and dull in the later series from what I could tell. A bit like …eh yes, you guessed it right. The Labour Party.
Andy Burnham if he has any sense at all will realise he has to reinvent without spending and has to replace the tedious front line characters dragging us all down collectively.
Don’t Panic - it is possible he can do it. Nothing could be worse than Reeves and Phillipson playing good little stereotype women for the party.

£9,600 in 1990?

That reflects both a large discount for long temr renting and an area where house prices were rock bottom.