Burnham’s leadership pitch: I’ll reverse Starmer’s culture of fear ...Middle East

In a further ratcheting up of his threats to the Starmer, the Greater Manchester Mayor once again questioned the direction of the party as he warned of the looming threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at the Welsh and local elections next year.

Burnham sparked a bitter backlash from Labour MPs last week after he gave a string of interviews criticising the decisions made by Starmer’s government, and admitted he was privately being urged by backbenchers to launch a leadership challenge.

“One of the things I think we do need to have a debate about is – how do we have a policy agenda that connects more, that tells a story more when people are on those doorsteps,” he told a fringe event, ostensibly on the issue of proportional representation at the party’s conference in Liverpool.

He went on to attack the decision to strip the whip from Labour MPs for voting against the Government on benefits reform, and he threw his weight behind Lucy Powell’s deputy leadership campaign and praised her decision to oppose the two child benefit cap.

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“It was extraordinary. I think he needs to lie down.”

The attack came just hours after Starmer had urged his party to unite, warning against the party faithful entering a period of “introspection and navel gazing”.

“Now is not the time for introspection or navel-gazing,” Starmer insisted.

“There is a fight that we are all in together and every single member of our party and our movement, actually everyone who cares about what this country is, whether they vote Labour or otherwise, it’s the fight of our lives for who we are as a country. We need to be in that fight united, not navel-gazing.”

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