This is The Guardian.

Today, will Kirstarmer come to regret blocking Andy Burnham?

Ever since Andy Burnham abandoned Westminster to become Greater Manchester's first ever mayor in 2017.

He has been dogged with questions about returning to Parliament for the top job.

If you would consider, or if you will rule out challenging Sir Keir Stalmer as Prime Minister?

I am not going to sit here this morning and kind of rule out what might or might not happen in the future.

Is that a never or is that just a not now?

I mean, I hesitate because immediately people write stories.

But it's not a never answer, but it's not a...

I'm not going to go and sort of say every conversation I have with every MP. I can't launch a leadership campaign. I'm not going to go and sort of say every conversation I have with every MP.

I can't launch a leadership campaign.

I'm not in Parliament.

He never hit his ambition to become PM one day,

and he couldn't really, given that he had tried and failed twice to become Labour Party leader.

But time and again, he insisted that he was perfectly happy back in his beloved north

and that he had no plans to get back down to that there London.

The party's been too London centric for too long.

Policies haven't been put forward in places like Burnley and mine.

The London perspective on life dominates national policy. So in the north,

he needed help. Then on Saturday night, he finally cracked. It's deadline day for Manchester

Mayor Andy Burnham. He has just a few hours to decide whether he will try and make a shock return

to Parliament in a by-election in Greater Manchester.

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