This is The Guardian.

Andy Burnham's doing a great job as the mayor of Manchester.

Do you think Kirstarmer is scared?

You're not making any further comment.

I've said everything that I needed to say.

He should just be allowed to put himself to the members of Gorton and Denton.

What was going to be obvious is that the NEC would support the position taken by the party

leader Kirstama, which they did.

If a different decision had been taken yesterday, I think it's perfectly plausible that we

would have had months of psychodrama.

I'm Pippa Carrera. And I'm Kieran Stacey. You're listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian.

Hello. Hello. We're back here at Westminster, Kieran, but the action's all been elsewhere

over the weekend, hasn't it? And you and I, well, I'd like to say, how was your weekend? And you report back, oh, I was hanging out with the kids, went for a run, out for dinner, the usual stuff. Actually, we ended up both working quite a lot of it. Well, yeah, I was in the Guildhall for much of Saturday, which was where the Fabians were having their

annual conference. Now, I'd already agreed to chair a panel there thinking, well, this will be a

very sleepy gathering of some nice centre-left types on a Saturday afternoon. But of course,

the Andy Burnham story, which we will talk about for much of this podcast, was blowing up around

us. And so I was chairing this panel. All anybody wanted to

talk about what was going on with Andy Burnham. But of course, we had to stick roughly to our script.

We were talking about regional growth. So we had to pretend to be interested. Well, of course,

very interesting topic, but we had to pretend to be completely interested in that for a couple of hours.

But you were up in Scotland, right? Celebrating Burns, Guy.

Well, celebrating Burns tonight, seeing my family and catching up with some politicians from

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