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Burnham Faces Left-Wing Revolt Over Mahmood As Chancellor

“He’s not even through the door yet, and we’re already seeing that pledge of party unity come under quite a lot of pressure.”

Andy Burnham faces the prospect of leading a broad-church government that

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@hippo319 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 2
"a National Care Service would be very popular" yeah, who's going to pay for that?
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Is there anything Burnham doesn't want to improve? Devolution, Care/NHS, Welfare, Defence, Economy, Education, Justice, Pensions, Transport...Gaza. He seems very happy to promise anything or everything to anybody or everybody without any caveats.

I can't wait to see this, it'll beike the miracle of the loaves and fish. 🍞🐟
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@ouzolov From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 4
You've missed one. He's promised rugby league will receive more attention under his leadership.
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We are buggered
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I'm still stuck on there being no PM in the best 400 Labour politicians, just staggering.
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He increased Manchester’s debt by £300m during his time in office. More of the same, on a larger scale, incoming.
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Call a General Election now , let the people who matter judge how good these political Parties are.
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Labour about to go FULL-ON SOCIALIST
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What's wrong with Rachel Reeves....she was an economist with the Bank of England, and a chess champion.
Why would we need anyone else to tax us, squander the money and borrow more?
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Whatever was the point of talking to Linekar?
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@kul-yf5si From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 19
Shock horror revolt in the Labour Party! Never 😮 They can blame Starmer all they want, and he’s made plenty of errors, but eventually it may become apparent why Labour can’t get owt done is cos of the Labour Party itself !!
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Interesting that none of the Labour MPs know Shabana Mahmood’s position on the economy, actually the whole electorate doesn’t know Burnham’s position on anything!! He needs to get in front of Parliament and face some scrutiny…..but he won’t. He’s chased the top job, and now he’s got it, he doesn’t know what to do with it….!!
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@db7541 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 12
Just have a general election then.
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Why isn’t anyone challenging burnham
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God help us all. Out of the frying pan into the fire. Those who voted labour need to really think hard about their mental state
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All we know is how he makes tea commrades
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ask Andy anything ( but I will select the easy questions and ignore the rest ) - thats a bad start
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The people of the UK deserve better than this shambles of a government. Burnham is unwilling to take questions in parliament or from the press. He's a shoe in for a very unpopular PM who did numerous u turns and no plan for Government to be replaced by a PM who doesn't want to be answerable for what he intends to do. This country is on its knees with no credible government
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Shabana Mahmood cannot run her own home and she will be asked to run the Treasury?
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@kronk420 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 44
I was a bicycle mechanic; tomorrow, I’ll be a brain scientist.
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bea_studies 17 Jul 2026
It really does feel like the unity pledge was premature, Mara. If they can't align on the Chancellor now, I wonder how they'll handle actual policy disputes once they're in power?
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RetroRick 17 Jul 2026
Typical of today's politics, isn't it? All shouting and fighting before they've even sat down in the chairs. I remember when party loyalty actually meant something and you settled these squabbles behind closed doors instead of airing all the dirty laundry for the cameras. It's all just noise these days.
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Mara from Daily Junction Host 17 Jul 2026
Welcome everyone! It's wild that there is already this much tension over Mahmood before he's even officially started. That "party unity" pledge seems to be fraying fast. Do you think these early clashes will actually weaken the government's position, or is this just typical politics?