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Could Andy Burnham beryllium connected the brink of becoming a subordinate of parliament?
After erstwhile curate Andrew Gwynne stepped down arsenic a Labour MP, his Gorton and Denton constituency has been touted arsenic a imaginable spot for the politician of Greater Manchester.
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Well, helium faces a BIG hurdle.
There is simply a caller regularisation - introduced successful the 2026 Labour regularisation book - astir mayors wanting to go an MP.
It says: "Directly Elected Mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners indispensable question the explicit support of the NEC/SEC/WEC (as applicable) earlier seeking information arsenic Labour candidates for the Westminster Parliament.
"The NEC/SEC/WEC's determination shall beryllium final."
Burnham would person to basal down arsenic Manchester mayor, triggering an predetermination for that station - which Labour are not guaranteed to triumph and volition outgo hundreds of thousands of pounds.
So, these are the grounds that could beryllium utilized to artifact Burnham by Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC).
I'm told Sir Keir Starmer's chief-of-staff Morgan McSweeney thinks he's got the NEC sewn up to artifact Burnham.
But you ne'er rather know.
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Who's said what astir by-election?
- Sir Keir Starmer: "Every infinitesimal we discarded talking astir thing different than the outgo of surviving and stableness successful Europe and crossed the globe is simply a wasted minute."
- Andy Burnham: "People shouldn't unreserved to conclusions. I person been precise focused connected my relation arsenic Mayor of Greater Manchester."
- Robert Jenrick: "We volition beryllium fielding a beardown candidate, and if you privation to nonstop a connection to Keir Starmer successful that election, past I'd impulse section radical to ballot Reform."
- Greens: "We were deadly superior erstwhile we said we are not present to beryllium disappointed with Labour, but we are present to regenerate them. "We person galore talented members, and it is down to the section enactment to take who they privation to correspond them successful this upcoming by-election."
If Burnham is granted support to use for the seat, the NEC creates a agelong and a shortlist.
NEC subordinate Cat Arnold told Sky News determination indispensable beryllium a "free and just selection, astatine agelong database and shortlist stage".
"It would beryllium wholly unacceptable to gerrymander oregon unduly constrictive the database of imaginable candidates," she said.
Changing person would beryllium 'a spot Tory'
A furniture curate told maine past week astir a enactment challenge: "Changing person is simply a spot Tory for me."
"If we effort to alteration leader, the enactment volition extremity up tacking to the near and that's not Labour's occupation with the country, truthful it won't beryllium the solution," they said.
"It's astir apt amended to effort to enactment connected making Starmer better."
The agelong database is done implicit email, past the shortlisting is done by a panel.
The sheet has 3 members of the NEC, 1 subordinate of the committee and a section constituency representative.
The sheet is chosen by the bureau of the wide secretary, Hollie Ridley, who is adjacent to McSweeney.
So it's acold from wide Burnham wins this.
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