Wes Streeting Announces He Will Not Run To Be Labour Leader And Endorses Burnham

It paves the way for the Makerfield MP to be "crowned" as PM after Starmer's resignation.

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Wes Streeting has declared that he will not run to be the next Labour leader and has endorsed Andy Burnham to be Keir Starmer’s successor.

The former health secretary quit last month in frustration over Starmer’s leadership and suggested that he would challenge his premiership.

Streeting insisted he had 81 MPs backing him – the threshold needed to trigger a........

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