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Burnham Set for Government Briefings as Labour Leadership Race Opens
Government briefings will begin for Andy Burnham as Labour MPs weigh leadership bids and Downing Street seeks an orderly handover.
- On Tuesday, Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham began receiving government briefings to prepare for power following Sir Keir Starmer's resignation on Monday, when the outgoing Prime Minister promised an 'orderly handover of power' to his successor.
- Sir Keir announced his departure in an emotional statement outside No 10 on Monday, hosting No 10 staff for drinks that evening to thank them for their support while pledging his 'full and unequivocal support' to his successor.
- Prospective candidates have until July 16 to amass support from at least 81 Labour MPs to enter the contest, with the National Executive Committee setting a timetable for a new leader by September 1 if there is a contest.
- At Cabinet on Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister insisted on an 'orderly transition' and pledged to 'seek to resolve difficult issues in the coming weeks', while officials confirmed the 'normal business of Government continues' during the transition.
- Burnham will outline his policy platform next week, pledging economic growth and commitment to Labour's existing fiscal rules, though he must reassure the City after previously saying 'we've got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets'. Chief Secretary Darren Jones and former Royal Marines officer Al Carns are weighing leadership bids.
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Less than two years after rescuing Labour from insignificance and returning it to power, in an election in which it won 411 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, Keir Starmer announced his resignation as party leader and chief executive. With his departure there are no less than six prime ministers that the British have suffered in the last decade, a period of bad government by successive conservative leaders that the Labour Party has not ev…
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