"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski

All of Burnham's big Cabinet moves so far (keeping Miliband out of the Treasury in favour of Healey who wants a big defence spending hike and keeping Mahmood in the Home Office) look designed to please the right-wing press. Let's see how it works out for him

Would you tax ALL the big corporations,the RICH,will you investigate the tax havens,will you change the bungs for anything regime,will you change the levels of corruption,will you pursue PPEVIP FRAUD,will your party STOP bring friends with a regime,will you stop weapon sales,NONE OF THE ABOVE!!

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“British politics is tired,” Andy Burnham told his supporters on Friday, as he launched his campaign to become MP for Makerfield. “It needs a new script.” It’s hard to disagree with this assessment. Unfortunately it’s becoming just as hard to work out exactly what he wants to change about it

Has there ever been a more graceless and divisive concession? Showing exactly why voters in Gorton and Denton rejected him tonight