Your Party parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn is asking for the public’s help to pressure Makerfield by-election candidate Andy Burnham into confirming he will back an independent inquiry into UK collusion in Israel’s genocide. Corbyn wrote to the Greater Manchester mayor in May 2026 asking Burnham to say publicly that he will back an inquiry. Burnham did not respond.

Now Corbyn wants members of the public, particularly but not exclusively in Makerfield, to sign a petition demanding Burnham state unequivocally that he will back an inquiry – and arrange it if he wins the by-election and a leadership election.

The British public deserves to know the full scale of its government’s complicity in genocide. That’s why I will continue to push for an independent, public inquiry.

We will not give up until there is justice for the people of Palestine.https://t.co/X0HlSxpGCg

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 26, 2026

Friends of genocide – except Corbyn

Burnham, at least formerly a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), is surrounded by concerns over his closeness to the UK Israel lobby. Disgraced, Israel-supporting incumbent Josh Simons quit in order to trigger the by-election and other pro-Israel figures now support Burnham. Burnham needs to win in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the keys to Number 10. Simons’s pro-Israel ‘Labour Together’ sabotage outfit appears to be trying to stay in control.

Makerfield voters go to the polls Thursday, 18 June 2026. If Burnham wants the left to lend him a vote, he needs to say right now – as per Corbyn’s demand – that he will hold an independent inquiry into the collusion of UK government, media and others in Israel’s slaughter of innocents.

Sign the petition here.

By Skwawkbox

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