Starmer vows to fight as Burnhams election win fuels a Labour leadership showdown
ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, England (AP) — Labour’s Andy Burnham, the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, won a special election for a seat in Parliament and signaled Friday that he will use it to challenge embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the country. Starmer said he planned to fight for his job, but a growing number of colleagues urged him to make a dignified exit. “There is this sense of collective movement,” former Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman told the is a...
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