Andy Burnham is facing renewed pressure to call a general election after a Labour grandee said he should go to the country before next summer.
Former home secretary Alan Johnson said the new Prime Minister should prove his new policies are popular and a break from the Starmer era by holding a vote in 2027.
While Mr Burnham ran for the Labour leadership on a platform of major policy change, his Chancellor John Healey last week said that his new administration was ‘continuity of a Labour government’ with a different leader.
Speaking to Times Radio, Mr Johnson, who was a Cabinet minister under Tony
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