Burnham rules out early election and refuses to commit to date on boosting defence spending to 3% of GDP – even though his Chancellor quit over Starmer’s dithering

Andy Burnham has ruled out an early general election as he insisted he would stick to Labour‘s manifesto.

In his first interview from Number 10 North, the new Prime Minister said that he had the support of his colleagues in Parliament.

But asked whether he would give the UK electorate of 48million a say, he said that the public did not want to go to the polls.

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, in his first major media interview since becoming PM, he said: ‘There is no general election and the thing I would say to you is 20 plus – however many million people you

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