Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Health Secretary Wes Streeting are thought to be the main potential challengers to Sir Keir.<\/p>\n
Andy Burnham<\/p>\n
Although he has made little secret of his leadership ambitions, Burnham cannot enter a contest without first becoming an MP.<\/p>\n
He was blocked from doing so earlier this year by the NEC.<\/p>\n
Refusing to allow Burnham to stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election, it said the cost to the party of a mayoral election to replace him would be “disproportionate”.<\/p>\n
The mayor’s supporters are hoping a leadership contest can be delayed until he is able to return to Parliament.<\/p>\n
Angela Rayner<\/p>\n
Rayner is favoured by some on the left of the party.<\/p>\n
In her first public comments since the elections, Rayner called for Labour to offer regional mayors more economic powers and raise the minimum wage. “We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people,” she said.<\/p>\n
Rayner resigned as Sir Keir’s deputy prime minister last September after it emerged she had failed to pay the correct amount of stamp duty on a \u00a3800,000 flat in Hove.<\/p>\n
It has been widely reported that she is still waiting for the result of an HMRC investigation into the purchase, which could complicate any immediate leadership campaign.<\/p>\n
Wes Streeting<\/p>\n
The health secretary backed the prime minister following its election losses, but did not explicitly rule out standing in any contest.<\/p>\n
Some who would like to see him replace Sir Keir think this might be his very best chance, before Andy Burnham can get back to Westminster.<\/p>\n
Streeting has been linked to Peter Mandelson, whose appointment as British ambassador to the US – despite his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – led to questions being raised about Sir Keir’s judgement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Health Secretary Wes Streeting are thought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-580124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}