Andy Burnham Launches Makerfield By-Election Campaign With 'Clarion Call For Change'

The Greater Manchester mayor has to win this constituency over before he can challenge Keir Starmer.

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Andy Burnham has launched his by-election campaign in Makerfield with a “clarion call for change”.

The mayor for Greater Manchester is widely expected to formally challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership if he wins this parliamentary seat.

The soft-left politician’s launch is therefore seen as both a campaign to win Makerfield and a promise to offer a different kind of government.

“Hope is in the air, can you feel it?” Burnham said.

“This is not business as usual. This is not more of the same,” he continued. “British politics is tired. It needs a new script.

“And over the next four weeks, the people of Makerfield........

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