There seems to be a mix of briefings going out suggesting Burnham will make Miliband the chancellor, keep Reeves to appease the bond markets, or tack further right and appoint Mahmood. It will be the first real signal of which version of Burnham we're getting I guess.
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Burnham already indicated he will bring Josh Simons back to Downing St, after he had to resign his Ministerial post for directing MI5 to investigate reporters looking into Starmer’s campaign. So I’m expecting the right-leaning version.
He should’ve gone months ago. It’s been obvious for a while now that, rightly or wrongly, a huge chunk of the electorate despises him.
I think that there has been some sort of miscommunication or a mismatch in context here:
Keir Starmer signals he would give Andy Burnham a cabinet job
I mean, Burnham will be taking a job on the Government cabinet, and it is likely that Starmer will be clearing out somebody's office in preparation for that. I'm just not sure that they are both talking about the same job. 😉
If you were Starmer, and wanted to keep any chance to hold onto power but also not completely tarnish your legacy, what would you do?
I reckon I'd set out a timetable for departure, with a default of Andy Burnham, say "I won't start a contest, but if anyone else does, I'll put myself forward" and then wait to see what Streeting does.
That way, if Streeting (or anyone else) does challenge, you can stay in with a shot while also not being the person who caused all the chaos.
How many PM did go in the last year ? Not a UK citizen so I try to make sense of this and it don’t look good.
Also what’s your left leaning parties ? Tories are conservative? Labour, right
Labour are traditionally the party of the workers, but they've moved right to a point where some unions are considering if they should move their support to other parties.
Left to right it tends to be:
- Greens (Soc Dems)
- Liberal Democrats (Socially progressive capitalists)
- Labour (Capitalists who think they still care about people)
- Conservatives (Capitalists who don't care about people)
- Reform UK (Racist chaos capitalists)
- Restore Britain (Brown shirts)
Edit: Yes, Tories is the the nickname for the Conservatives.
None. Keir has been PM since '24.
Historically Tories occupied the centre right and Labour centre Left. Of course over the years they both waxed and waned with the extremes of the two but that's roughly accurate.
These days there's harder left (Greens) and harder right (Reform) that also have non negligible impact on UK politics. You also have Lib Dems and the SNP that do things 😂.