It is all happening. Andy Burnham is going to stand in a by-election in order to take down

Keir Starmer's leadership and become Prime Minister. Now, I'm going to discuss Burnham and the West

Street in Fiasco in Keir Starmer with Michael Walker from Navarra. This bit of news was just announced

literally after we stopped recording. It doesn't make any difference to the substance, because

we talk it all through. What's happened is the MP Josh

Simons has stood down in the northern seat of Makerfield. Simons was the former head of Labor

Together, the right-wing organisation designed to crush the left, and a key ally of former

Stama, Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney, but he was forced to resign from government after

a Labour together smear campaign against journalists was uncovered, not least the brilliant Paul Holden, writer of the book

The Fraud, which exposes starmerism. What I would say is McPhil'd have a massive reform vote

in the 2024 election before the big reform surge, and in last week's local elections, stormed

it. This is a test of whether Burnham's popularity can override that.

Let's go to the discussion with Michael Walker.

So West Streeting has resigned.

Doesn't look like he's got the numbers to challenge Kirstama.

So has he just flopped?

Is that just one big tawdry, embarrassing saga for Wesley Streeting,

the now former health secretary, ultra-blerite torchbearer.

Is he doing a deal with Andy Burnham? Is Andy Burnham going to get a seat? Because it's all sounding

a bit like, I do have a parliamentary seat. You don't know as you goes to another school.

Which parliamentary seats are going to get? Because a couple that were being bandied around, you look at them, you think, to be honest,

even if the green soft pedal, they'd probably end up winning by accident or potentially,

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