ANDY BURNHAM’S emphatic win in Makerfield is welcome both as a repudiation of Reform UK and as the trigger to end Keir Starmer’s premiership.Like the Caerphilly and Gorton & Denton results, it shows the left can outvote Reform when it rallies behind one standard bearer. Burnham won an absolute majority of the vote, a stronger showing than Plaid Cymru or the Greens in those contests — no doubt because of his unusually high profile but also because this was a vote to change the prime minister, something almost the whole country can get behind.

ANDY BURNHAM’S emphatic win in Makerfield is welcome both as a repudiation of Reform UK and as the trigger to end Keir Starmer’s premiership.

Like the Caerphilly and Gorton & Denton results, it shows the left can outvote Reform when it rallies behind one standard bearer. Burnham won an absolute majority of the vote, a stronger showing than Plaid Cymru or the Greens in those contests — no doubt because of his unusually high profile but also because this was a vote to change the prime minister, something almost the whole country can get behind.

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