Coming in Andy: Britain's prime minister-in-waiting

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  The Economist

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, the Iran deal's effect on a battered economy,

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  and a tour of Barack Obama's presidential library.

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  First up, though.

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  In general, we don't spend a lot of time on the show looking at by-elections in Britain.

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  But this one, this one we told you might be seismic.

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  Makerfield is a constituency in Northwest England that,

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  until yesterday, sat at the center of British national politics.

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  "From here on, I will give everything I have got to make it so,

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  to ensure the name Makerfield is forever synonymous with bringing about the change this country needs.

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  Bringing back something we've lost.

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  Hope.

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  Hope for the future."

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  Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, needed to win the election in order to get into parliament,

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  and from there, to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party

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  and, therefore, as Prime Minister.

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  Well, he did it.

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  Step one, tick.

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