00:01This is a local election with national implications.
00:05On Thursday, 75,000 British voters in the Makerfield constituency in the northwest of England
00:11may hold the Prime Minister's future in their hands.
00:15The favourite in the polls for the parliamentary seat is Labour's Andy Burnham,
00:20Mayor of Greater Manchester.
00:22Should he succeed, he could challenge the leadership of the British Prime Minister,
00:26Keir Starmer, at the head of the Labour Party.
00:29Britain's parliamentary system allows governing parties to change leader midterm
00:33with a winner becoming Prime Minister without the need for a national election.
00:38Since coming to power, Starmer has faced electoral defeats and difficulties
00:42such as the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to Washington,
00:48a figure whose name is linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
00:51Despite this, Starmer has already warned that he intends to fight to remain at 10 Downing Street.
00:56Well, I don't think there should be a leadership election.
01:00I think that the last government proved that parties that spend their whole time in leadership elections
01:06don't go on to win the next general election.
01:09I'm not walking away. I'm going to fight.
01:12Before he can hope to move into 10 Downing Street, Andy Burnham will also have to defeat the candidate
01:18from the far-right Reform UK party.
01:20Results are expected in the early hours of Friday.
01:23What are the challenges in the future?
01:24What is the issue of the UNRyr period?
01:25In the United States?
01:25You
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