Defiant Sir Keir Starmer today pledged ‘I’m not going to walk away’ after Andy Burnham finally admitted openly on Question Time that he has Labour leadership ambitions.

The Prime Minister turned to his go-to list of crises – the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East – as he urged the Manchester Mayor not to trigger a contest. After the obligatory description of Burnham as ‘talented’, the Prime Minister, speaking to LBC in Swindon, got straight to it:

I’ve said over and over again I’m not going to walk away. We won an election victory in 2024 with a five-year mandate. We’re only two years into that and so I’m not going to walk away from that… we should be getting on with the job that we were elected to do in 2024, which is taking the........

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