Yes not for the first time this month Streeting has overestimated the strength of his position. I can't see Labour members wanting to vote for the fifth columnist responsible for a by-election l… (View Post)

No. 2 years ago Makerfield voted for a Labour Party apparatchick named Josh Simons to replace a retiring MP who had represented the seat since 2010, Simons having been parachuted in by McSweeney'… (View Post)

My wife says that when she thinks of Andy Burnham, Scott Tracey (of TB1) rather than James Bond comes to mind. (View Post)

The evidence says otherwise regarding your latter comment. When Corbyn was the coming thing, he unsuccessfully stood against him for leader in 2015, and stood down in 2017 in order to become GM Mayor… (View Post)

But nationally, Reform voters are as likely to consider Andy Burnham to be "acceptable" as next PM as "unacceptable": Opinium, fieldwork 6-8 May: "If Keir Starmer resigned as… (View Post)