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[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@wiliband_ Chicken or the egg

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

He has such a deeply Gordon Brown way of speaking

[will🌹 @wiliband_]

"We can, must, and will succeed, because of, not in spite of, our progressive values!"

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

I do think that cutting straight to questions right after a speech made an already underwhelming Starmer look much more flat

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Andy Burnham - who is set to become PM next month without a leadership contest, after 9 years away from Westminster, and less than a month after becoming an MP again - is making his first big policy speech this morning and refusing to take questions from journalists after it.

Not good at all.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

It’s almost worth standing in these leadership elections as well to be the one who can say they warned you so if it all goes tits up, i.e. Rishi.

[Harriet Symonds @harriet_symonds]

EXC: Labour MPs opposed to a coronation are rallying around Darren Jones to challenge Andy Burnham for the leadership

An MP organising for him tells me: ‘Lots of people are pushing Darren to stand.

There is real opposition to a coronation for someone who hasn't really said what he believes in or will do as PM’

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t True, but only because the line between abundance liberals and Thatcherites and classical liberals is very thin. The biggest separator between a Thatcherite and Abundance liberal is with how the state involves itself in the social sphere, and Boris isn’t even that much different

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

The real implication is the reality of what the role of Prime Minister actually means in our system and perhaps how we should all collectively think of it

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Immigration Minister Mike Tapp has called for a new law forcing a general election if a party forces out its leader

"That would stop the constant churn and focus all politicians on delivery, instead of workplace politics. The country would benefit"

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t 😂 Rather her than Mike Tapp

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t Better when she had morals

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t Nothing will change except for a leader with a northern accent. Burnham’s vision of ‘Manchesterism’ is bleak when you consider that his development of housing has routinely failed to include the social housing promised, and the nature of how these developments have happened

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

Hannah Spencer is also a far better communicator than she’s given credit for

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

Localism has probably had a detrimental effect on the quality of politicians we get in Britain, but this shows how ridiculous running Matt Goodwin in Gorton and Denton was.

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

Makerfield was Andy Burnham’s back up plan.

For Robert Kenyon, it’s his home.

This battle will be David Vs Goliath.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

The AI graphic at the end says it all

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

Probably shouldn’t do it anyway, but would be a nice way for him to escape that mess at Your Party and round out his career.

[Sandra Mitchell @glabsandra]

NEW: John McDonnell has told @cathynewman he hopes Andy Burnham reinstates Jeremy Corbyn as a Labour MP and he’d “raise it with him” personally. @TimesRadio

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

Might be what he needs to actually have a mandate to make the changes which have been rumoured he wants to do. I think an optimistic scenario gives him a slim majority like the Wilson governments had

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Don’t rule out Brunham succeeding, a poll bounce and him pulling a Carney with an early election.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t Yeah. Something seriously went wrong in the timeline. 2019 for all purposes did seem like the start of the Boris Era, destined for at least 10 years of governance.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

Might be worse than some of the ones already mentioned

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MP Josh Simons will resign to trigger a by-election in Makerfield to give Andy Burnham a route back to Parliament

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t I imagine you’re right to be fair, and I think that government would’ve approached net migration in the same way the current government has.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t Yeah exactly but even that was small fry really. Still a lot of people and ridiculous policy, but would’ve done very little to change anything in Britain other than issues perceived around asylum and appearing tough on the issue

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t Bring in a record amount of people to prevent inflationary wage hikes, for better or for worse. This would never happen so it’s a waste of time thinking about it but the Trump parallel is definitely true.

[Ginger @Biscuit2Ginger]

@RabbidTheNabb1t If Boris ever came back (not happening), he’d have to present himself as much more radical in the same way Trump 2 has. Very hard to overcome that ‘Boriswave’ perception to what would be his base. Without being too much on the anti-immigration gravy train, but his government did