Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation The Gorton and Denton byelection ‘revealed the full depth of the chasm between people and Westminster politics’, Burnham said. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA View image in fullscreen The Gorton and Denton byelection ‘revealed the full depth of the chasm between people and Westminster politics’, Burnham said. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Andy Burnham criticises ‘bankruptcy’ of Labour approach to campaigningGreater Manchester mayor rekindles leadership speculation with speech addressing party’s byelection loss Andy Burnham has reignited hostilities with Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership, criticising what he described as the “bankruptcy” of the party’s approach to campaigning, a week after it lost the previously safe seat of Gorton and Denton.The mayor of Greater Manchester and former MP, regarded as a rival to Starmer, said Labour’s campaigning style prevented it from connecting with non-Labour voters and other progressive parties, as he evoked the system of clipboard-wielding canvassers going door to door with records of previous Labour supporters.“What I want to say today is that the time has most definitely come for a serious conversation about our political system and its pervading culture, particularly so in the aftermath of the Gorton and Denton byelection,” Burnham said in a speech at the British Library in London that reignited speculation he has not given…
Published: March 4, 2026 6:02 pm
Source: The Guardian — Read original