Ian Wickham

SE London 🇬🇧 | Centre Left🌹| Pro-European 🇪🇺

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[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

If you're going to get angry every time Labour don't walk into an elephant trap, you're in for long few years.

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

Wild Wild West?

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

Catherine West now on Radio 4 saying Keir Starmer could win a leadership election and not ruling out voting for him

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

4. In the meantime, stop briefing, stop your allies briefing, stop telling Keir to lead a coup against himself.

Let those who want to continue the frankly brilliant work that is going on in this government.

/fin

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

Here's what should happen.

1. Andy Burnham should resign as Mayor of Greater Manchester. He clearly doesn't want the job and Labour can get on with the election. No need to find a replacement, that's the NEC's job.

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

3. If they don't, fine: wait until a by-election happens and the NEC should let Burnham contest given he will then be a free agent.

If he wins, get the numbers again and challenge.

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

We have now reached the point where we're talking about asking Gary Neville to become Mayor of Greater Manchester to backfill the King of the North when he finds a seat.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

NEW: Leadership timelines:
** There is no contest at the moment, and will not be until 81 names are submitted to the NEC
** Wes Streeting has specifically asked for a long contest, that allows Andy Burnham to stand.
** If this happens, this is likely to mean it concludes around conference at the end of September
** In the first instance, No10 likely to emphasise there is no contest underway. But if it formally begins, will No10 press for a quicker resolution - the PM ++could++ make the argument it's in the national interest to get this over with.
** Andy Burnham could forward with a constituency name today; if he triggers the contest, then nominations would have to stay open for 6/7 weeks while he gets an MP - if he wins the vote
** Some NEC members want Team Burnham to put forward a plan for the Manchester Metro Mayor job that doesn't involve installing a sitting MP. Gary Neville is a name that some talk about, but I'm told he may not have been approaches so could be utterly wishful thinking.

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

My 81 MPs? You wouldn't know them, they go to another school.

Keir should stay until someone is actually popular enough out to mount a challenge.

The fact that they are all struggling does not speak highly of their ability to win a contest let alone an election.

[Tim (still totally unremarkable) @forwardnotback]

This was a paid for advert by Reform - expect them to claim victory
Less than two years into government and we are reverting to type
Ramsay McDonald, Tony Blair and now we are doing it with Keir Starmer
Perhaps we will never learn

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

Wes Streeting has been brilliant at Health and desperately sad to see this.

Maybe the argument is Burnham gets there eventually and his allies will keep feeding the media and disrupting delivery so someone needed to do something.

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

Yet again - this about "ideas" but unable or unwilling to say which ideas would have made a difference to polling.

I've been joking on here but that's because I'm so angry that we are risking the first Labour govt. in 14 years 3 years out from an election

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

When you've definitely got 81 MPs backing you and it's all going fine.

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

The economy grew and waiting lists are down so, er, dump the prime minister?

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

🎵Things are shifting
Time is...fleeting
Madness, takes control🎵

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

UPDATE: Allies of Streeting say health sec does have the numbers but “things are shifting”….

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

Lots of good news stories like this at present!

The UK's relative strength in terms of venture capital investment, and how to build on it, probably ought to feature more heavily in the economic debate (might be easier when the politics calms down)

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The Guardian is reporting Angela Rayner has now paid £40,000 of extra stamp duty, but HMRC accepted she wasn't "careless" and so she didn't pay a penalty.

On the public facts, that’s hard to understand.

Here’s why:

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

@fletchersimon So we'd have a better case not to have to call an immediate election? Sounds good.

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

When I was first elected, experts warned it would take nearly 200 years for London’s air pollution to fall within legal limits.

We did it in 9 💚

Good to speak to the Guardian about why bold climate action has been at the heart of my decade as Mayor ⬇️
https://t.co/w38H098f7K

[Ian Wickham @Wkrs]

This is embarrassing - and extremely patronising to the voters he's assuming will roll out the red carpet for the King of the North.

[Dan Bloom @danbloom1]

EXCL: Andy Burnham's backers are lobbying the Labour NEC to hold an extended leadership election to give him time to return to parliament

They want a nomination period long enough for him to run in (and win) a by-election. It could stretch the entire contest to around 3 months

[Lucy McDaid @LucyJMcDaid]

NEW: 114 Labour MPs have now backed Keir Starmer, with more expected today according to organisers. New names ⬇️

Jacob Collier
Darren Paffey
Andrew Ranger

[Clive Efford 💙 @CliveEfford]

Growing the economy will lead to improvements in people’s standard of living after 14 years of Tory stagnation when, household incomes flatlined or went down. People need hope for the future, not a return to Tory austerity.