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despite the constant negative press covfefe

[… @House3Nvm]

All you had to do was vote for Kamala Harris.

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

3 things yesterday which prove UK is no longer a serious country:
- Scottish MP sworn in, smirking & openly mocking the oath in the chamber
- Steve Bray permitted to blast out music while the PM was making resignation statement
- Burnham & the MPs selfie
What. An. Embarrassment

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

By their words ye shall know them:
Wes Streeting: If there’s a leadership contest I will definitely be a candidate.
He’s not running.
Keir Starmer: If a leadership contest is triggered I will definitely be a candidate.
He’s not running.

[dan barker @danbarker]

In the morning, their leader cried at the sacrifices he felt he'd made, in part for them. In the afternoon, they grinned in support of the man kicking him out.

[Ed McGuinness @EJ_McGuinness]

Remember - not one single person in this photograph is of high enough quality to lead the country.

Indeed @UKLabour had to outsource its leadership to a bloke who has lost all the leadership elections he has been in and is demanding a “coronation” for fear he would lose another.

403 clowns.

[Mark Mitchener @markofagenius]

Time will tell, but perhaps the biggest mistake Keir Starmer made was resigning today.

[Jennifer Stewart @JenniferJS_]

The backstabber. So pleased with himself that he got away with it. I heard him make a joke in the Commons after he'd been sworn in; something about "I've been naughty". It's Boris Johnson all over again. It'll end in tears for everyone, including him.

[Felice Basbøll @fbasboll]

This whole photo shoot is so weird. Aren’t they at all embarrassed that it came to this? Is it just that careerism is fine now? Or do they actually think of themselves as that separate to Starmer?

[Duncan Hegan @DuncanHegan1]

Why is anyone in this photo smiling? What do they think is about to happen? Why do they think Burnham is better than Starmer? What policies is he going to implement that will make the country better? Is it just that they think he’ll help them keep their seats? What is going on?!

[… @House3Nvm]

@markaizatt Utterly inappropriate of Reeves to be there

[Richard Hakeswill @fanofnicethings]

And Mr Speaker, let me lay out the aims of the first hundred days of my government:

A cone of chips, Mr Speaker, will be capped at 75p, and all children will be offered the scrap ends, regardless of creed or colour.

We will bring down the cost of the great British cuppa, by removing VAT on keckles and subsidising your leccy bill via a tax on Surrey.

And finally Mr Speaker, we will establish in law - and will not hesitate to prosecute to the fullest extent of those laws - that dinner is the midday meal and yer have yer tea at 5pm.

Mr Speaker, Britain is not broken, it’s just being a rate numpty.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

Does nobody think it’s just the tiniest bit weird that even Labour MPs think there is nobody - not one person - elected in 2024 who would make a competent PM? Not one.

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

He's not Ned Stark heading to King's Landing.

He's a mediocre career politician who has never made it higher than Health Secretary 16 years ago, heading to take over a failing Government that sits 3rd in polling.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

WTF? … Sky News has actually put a helicopter over London to cover Andy Burnham arriving by train…

Like it’s the 2nd coming?

If you ever wonder why trust in the media has collapsed, start here 🤡

[JRF @JRFBoy]

Why is a presumably unskilled Algerian even here in the first place? And how was he living in Bellot Street, which is ten minutes walk from Greenwich Park and Maze Hill Station? Does anyone in charge ever have to answer any of these questions?

[Richard Negus @TrooperSnooks]

Kids will read about this day in history books and shake their heads in disbelief.

On June 22nd 2026 an incompetent but legitimately elected Prime Minister was forced to make way for a bloke who 30,000 people from Wigan quite like.

[IN THE 80s PETER MANDELSON WENT MAD 🥀 @ABU_N3RVEGAS]

Genuinely quite funny that this is the first and only time he’s shown any amount of emotion that hasn’t been in some way related to football.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Andy Burnham is trying to run three incompatible stories at once – and hoping nobody lines them up side by side.

Story 1: He’s the big-spending “change” candidate, promising more money for transport, education, energy and local services, all on top of an already tight Labour fiscal framework.

Story 2: He’s the continuity man on tax, pledging to keep Labour’s 2024 guarantee not to raise the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax, not to increase National Insurance, and not to touch VAT – a political straitjacket Rachel Reeves was already straining against in office.

Story 3: He’s the responsible figure who will “respect” Reeves’s fiscal rules and reassure the bond markets that Britain is safe in his hands. Even his own cheerleaders in the press now admit you cannot do bigger permanent spending on the same narrow tax base without markets asking: “Where’s the money coming from?”

You can have a big permanent state. You can have a tight tax lock. You might even – on a good day – keep the bond markets reasonably calm. You cannot have all three whilst also pretending “growth” will magically do the heavy lifting when the IFS has already pointed out Labour dodged the real decisions in 2024.

Burnham is being urged by his own allies to tear up the tax pledges because they know the truth: his numbers don’t add up and the manifesto lock is a time bomb for anyone who actually tries to govern on it.

The uncomfortable question he refuses to answer: which promise does he intend to break first – his spending vows to voters, his tax lock to “working people”, or his supposed fiscal credibility to the markets?

[Rael Braverman @raelbrav]

Burnham will discover within weeks that a cheeky smile, a northern accent, and the informality of the blokey polo neck are not, in themselves, qualifications for high office.

The cultivated image of the cheeky chappy can carry a politician only so far before substance, competence, and judgement are required.

He is in deep water. He just doesn’t know it yet.

[John Dutton @mindofprospect]

Who does this guy actually think he is

[Brendan May @bmay]

This G7 economy with nuclear weapons is about to crown someone PM who hasn't been in Parliament for years and has zero foreign or defence policy creds, all because he has a nice smile, nothern accent, wears a T-shirt with a jacket and did something to bus fares in one city. Wow.