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Today, will Keir Starmer come to regret blocking Andy Burnham?
Ever since Andy Burnham abandoned Westminster to become Greater Manchester's first ever mayor in 2017,
he has been dogged with questions about returning to Parliament for the top job.
I am not going to sit here this morning and kind of rule out what might or might not happen in the future.
Is that a never or is that just a not now?
I mean I hesitate because immediately people write stories but it's not a never answer but it's not.
I'm not going to go and sort of say every conversation I have with every MP.
I can't launch a leadership campaign.
I'm not in Parliament.
He never hid his ambition to become PM one day.
And he couldn't really, given that he had tried and failed twice to become Labour Party leader.
But time and again,
he insisted that he was perfectly happy back in his beloved North and that he had no plans to get back down to that there London.
The party's been too London centric for too long.
Policies haven't been put forward in places like Burnley in mind,
you know, the London perspective on life.
dominates national policy so in the north he needed help.
Then on Saturday night he finally cracked.
It's deadline day for Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.