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Shabana Mahmood, chair of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee, has formally confirmed Andy Burnham as the party's new leader at a special Labour conference. Burnham succeeds Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader and is expected to take over as Prime Minister on Monday. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Following the period of nominations by Labour MPs, one candidate received 379 nominations.
00:07Having met the threshold of 20% of the parliamentary Labour Party, they were eligible to proceed to the next
00:14stage.
00:15One other candidate received one nomination and is not eligible to proceed.
00:19Among the affiliated trade unions and social societies, the one eligible candidate received 23 nominations in total.
00:26This included nominations from all 11 trade unions comprising well over 5% of the affiliated membership.
00:35There being no other eligibly nominated candidate, it is therefore my honour to declare that the duly elected leader of
00:44the Labour Party is Andy Burnham.
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