Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Starmer

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Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, refuses to rule out challenging the leadership of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

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00:00If you would consider, or if you will rule out challenging Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister?

00:12I am not going to sit here this morning and kind of rule out what might or might not happen in the future.

00:19Because why would I? I don't know what the future will hold.

00:22What I do know is I'm mayor of the most successful city region in the country, the fastest growing,

00:28and it's my job to put forward a plan for its future success, rather than go back to my old world

00:35where everyone is constantly speculating about everything, not putting forward solutions for the benefit of the country.

00:42And maybe that's part of our problem, the political culture in this country.

00:45We're always speculating, but not actually focusing on solutions in the here and now.

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