{"id":662621,"date":"2026-06-28T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662621\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:59:09","slug":"senior-labour-figures-say-party-united-behind-andy-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662621\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Labour figures say party united behind Andy Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starmer resigns, Burnham’s back – a recap of a busy weekpublished at 08:57 BST<\/p>\n

08:57 BST<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the space of a week, the UK’s political landscape has changed significantly.<\/p>\n

The last episode of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg saw cabinet minister Peter Kyle say Keir Starmer was reflecting on “political realities” amid speculation over the prime minister’s future.<\/p>\n

By Monday, Starmer had stopped reflecting. <\/p>\n

He resigned as PM, saying “every decision” he made has been about “putting the country I love first”.<\/p>\n

It came just before Andy Burnham – the former Greater Manchester mayor who is tipped to become the next prime minister – was sworn in as an MP. <\/p>\n

Following his big win in the Makerfield by-election, Burnham travelled to London to officially re-enter Parliament. On his way to the capital he announced he would run to become leader of the Labour Party – and PM.<\/p>\n

Wes Streeting, another potential challenger, backed Burnham for the top job.<\/p>\n

Nominations for potential candidates to come forward open on 9 July and close a week later. Starmer said by the reopening of Parliament following the summer recess, 1 September, the party will have a new leader in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer resigns, Burnham’s back – a recap of a busy weekpublished at 08:57 BST 08:57 BST Image source,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662621","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=662621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}