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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

UNBELIEVABLE: Burnhams momentum builds in makerfield as byelection nears - Caught on Camera

Andy Burnham walks through a town against a backdrop of blue sky and clouds.
Andy Burnham on the campaign trail in Makerfield, where ‘people are genuinely quite shocked when he turns up to see them in person’. Photograph: Jon Super/AP

For a few short weeks, the centre of political gravity in Britain has shifted from the Palace of Westminster to the bar of a former Labour club in Wigan.

In London, even as Keir Starmer insists he will fight to stay in No 10, the walls seem to be crumbling around him, especially with Thursday’s resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey.

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