Andy Burnham is on the verge of being crowned Britain’s next prime minister after Labour MPs rushed to demonstrate loyalty to their ‘King of the North’.
Some 322 of the party’s MPs – nearly 80 per cent of Labour’s seats in the House of Commons – have nominated Mr Burnham to replace Keir Starmer, it was announced tonight.
It means Mr Burnham, dubbed by some as his party’s ‘messiah’, is almost guaranteed enter Downing Street on 20 July – despite questions about his mandate to lead the country as he’s not faced a public vote or revealed much of his policy platform.
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