Labour’s Desperate Attempt to Block Burnham Will Backfire
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer’s allies have some questionable tactics up their sleeves to prevent a coup by Andy Burnham.
Plus: We speak to Meghan Bodette from the Kurdish Peace Institute about the future of Syria, new data suggests that liberal democracy is close to collapse, & Trump claims NATO troops in Afghanistan avoided the frontline.
With Michael Walker, NoJusticeMTG & Patrick Porter.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Navarra Live. |
| 0:05.0 | Kirstama's allies have some questionable tactics up their sleeves to prevent a leadership challenge by Andy Burnham. |
| 0:12.0 | We've got an interview with Megan Bedet from the Kurdish Peace Institute about the future of Syria. |
| 0:18.0 | We spoke to her from those Kurdish-controlled regions of Syria. Really, really |
| 0:23.1 | interesting interview. Also, new data suggests that liberal democracy is close to collapse. Also, |
| 0:28.7 | by the way, I'm Michael Walker. I'm joined tonight by Helena, aka No Justice MTG. Great to have you |
| 0:34.9 | on board this Friday evening. Absolutely, on the second Friday and the co-host chair in the studio, looking forward to some more heated discussion. In the studio. Very, very, very, calm and heat, but heat. Which one of us is defending liberal democracy from death? Well, the views left to keep watching to find out. Keep watching to find out. If you'd like support our work, you can sign up atavirmedia.com forward slash support |
| 0:54.6 | straight into that first story. Labour currently has as its leader, the least popular |
| 0:58.9 | prime minister of all time. Not a great situation. But with inevitable electoral defeat looming, |
| 1:05.4 | the higher-ups appear to have one priority. Make sure no one popular can replace him as Labour leader. They've got the most |
| 1:13.7 | unpopular prime minister of all time. The worst thing that there could possibly be would be an alternative. |
| 1:20.2 | The campaign to stop Andy Burnham has, of course, gone into overdrive. Yesterday we learned |
| 1:26.9 | Andrew Gwyn would be resigning as MP for Gordon and Denton, |
| 1:30.3 | his Manchester constituency. |
| 1:32.1 | Andy Burnham clearly wants it. |
| 1:33.8 | He needs a way into Westminster to stand as leader, |
| 1:36.5 | but party bosses have other ideas. |
| 1:40.2 | Sienna Rogers of Politics Home has reported this. |
| 1:44.3 | Politics Home understands that the current leadership has sent a clear message to key supporters within the party |
| 1:49.6 | that Burnham will not be allowed to stand as Labour's candidate in Gorton and Denton. |
| 1:54.9 | Some have suggested he could be blocked by Labor's ruling National Executive Committee, |
| 1:59.3 | drawing up a list of female candidates only for |
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