Labour left wing would back leadership run by Andy Burnham if party loses Batley and Spen, Corbyn ally says
- Diane Abbott on Andy Burnham and the Labour leadership
Keir Starmer should resign if Labour loses the Batley and Spen byelection, the former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has said, suggesting the party’s left wing would endorse a leadership run by Andy Burnham.
Her intervention comes as Sadiq Khan became the second prominent Labour mayor to reach out to the rest of the country, writing in the Yorkshire Post about breaching the divide between the north and his city, London.
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