The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has used her speech at the Labour Party Conference to issue a warning to Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham
“But I do know that there are still people who peddle the idea that we can just abandon economic responsibility, cast off any constraints on public spending. They’re wrong. Dangerously so. And we need to be honest about what that choice would mean.” she told the audience alluding to Burnham’s call to ease fiscal rules which some have likened to Liz Truss’s damaging budget
The attack came as Poll found the Mayor of Greater Manchester would beat the Prime Minister among Labour members if a leadership contest were held today
The poll for Labour List found that over 40% of Labour members say they would back Andy Burnham in a potential leadership contest
The same poll puts Health Secretary Wes Streeting second on nine percent, followed by former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner on seven percent.
Meanwhile the Mayor appears to have a temporary retreat telling an interviewer that he can’t launch a leadership campaign because he’s not an M and that he would rather be Mayor of Manchester than Prime Minister and that he never called for £40 billion more borrowing in an interview last week.
