UK News: Pressure is intensifying on Keir Starmer after Andy Burnham was given a route back to parliament
Luke Akehurst, Labour MP for North Durham and a member of the national executive committee (NEC), said he expected Andy Burnham to be granted a waiver to stand in the Makerfield byelection.
“I don’t want to pre-judge [the NEC’s] decision, but everything I’m hearing suggests they’re going to give him a waiver to allow him to stand even though he’s a metro mayor,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Continue reading…
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