DAN HODGES: How Starmer said he’d let his bitter rival stand – then secretly lobbied to block him

The Cabinet minister let out a sigh of relief. ‘All the leadership camps have signed up to a September timetable. Most of the Cabinet is on board. The parliamentary party are moving behind Andy. The war’s finally over,’ they told me.

The war is not over. And the reason it isn’t is that Keir Starmer and his increasingly fanatical coterie of allies refuse to bow to the inevitable and lay down their arms.

At 5pm yesterday, it was suddenly announced that Andy Burnham had been cleared to run in the upcoming by-election in Makerfield after an unprecedentedly swift and covert consultation of

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