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Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Candidate selection in burnham s potential seat will be normal process kinnock - Caught on Camera

Andy Burnham is viewed as a potential rival to the Prime Minister for the Labour leadership (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Andy Burnham’s potential return to Parliament will be handled like any other selection process, a minister said amid speculation Sir Keir Starmer’s allies will seek to scupper the Greater Manchester mayor’s Westminster ambitions.

Mr Burnham, long viewed as a potential rival to the Prime Minister for the Labour leadership, faces a decision on whether to attempt to return to Westminster after a Greater Manchester MP announced he would quit the Commons.

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