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Andy Burnham (Almost) Wins | BBC Newscast

Today, Andy Burnham's Labour leadership bid has been backed by 322 Labour MPs.

If no one else enters the contest, as expected, Burnham will be declared Labour leader next week before taking office as

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Just when you think Labour voters can't be any worse they're about to vote in Burnham whose STARMER ON SPEED. He was a rubbish minister under Blair,and will be even worse has PM.
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How long till he runs out of other people's money to burn?
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Almost won 322 people vote him in to a dictatorship position millions of people paying for this farce didn't get a vote.
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Backing a losing side that happens to be Starmers side when he was leading, we will see if Andy burnham backs the country or not
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Wanting to be prime minister and being the prime minister are two different things.
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@walkaz From YouTube ↗ 11 Jul 2026 2
Installed just like a toilet
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You know when the indigenous population is becoming a minority when a ONCE Christian country like the UK has the most popular boys baby name 3 yrs running as being MUHAMMAD . Bye bye UK WE have been marginalised .
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Hes In it for the Big pension and expenses like them All
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They released the figures for. The cost of living in manchester a week after the by-election,,, -7% ,,,how bloody convenient. And how can anyone get over excited about anything labour... Burhams finished before he's even started.
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Over 300 Labour mps voted for Andy Burnham but not one single British citizen
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He is not equipped.
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Broken britain. The largest political party, 40% of voters, are the non voter!
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Yet no one outside his party wants him it. They are just re arranging the chairs on the Titanic
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@SteeeV-q8t From YouTube ↗ 11 Jul 2026 15
He is just waiting for them to install the Number 10 revolving door.
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Remember when Labour were ragging the Tories for anointing Rishi Sunak? I guess they didn't REALLY mean it, surprise surprise.
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If only the Windsor's could be replaced so easily.
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The revolving door how long will he last?.
About the same length of time as the BBC ?.
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I've been thinking of applying for my disability but don't need the full help and I do work (full time) but I'm very limited due to mobility, arthritis but would be nice to get a little extra (or make everything cheaper) that would be great for everyone.
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No general election. No public mandate. Just Westminster doing its usual magic trick: democracy disappears when it becomes inconvenient.
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He is PM because nobody else in Labour wants to be a sacrificial lamb. Boris was taken out by his own people and we saw a string of PMs that came and left. Then Starmer received the same treatment and now we will get a string of Pms again. Waiting on the sidelines whilst gaining money and backstabbing your teammates is how the game of politics is played. The book A Game of Thrones is about just that. There is a reason why even most Kings and Queens were killed off by their own family and loyal followers.