Because of my work

Labour 'should win next election' with Burnham because of my work - PM

Labour “should go on to win the next election” under Andy Burnham, Sir Keir Starmer has said, because of the work he has done in power.

In his first sit down interview since he announced he will quit as Prime Minister, Sir Keir also insisted he held no “personal animosity” for Mr Burnham, who is all but guaranteed to succeed him.

Speaking to the BBC, the Prime Minister was asked what he thought his achievements were in power and as leader of the Labour Party.

He pointed to efforts to tackle antisemitism in the party in opposition, the 2024 general election victory and said his Government had “stabilised the economy” over the last two years.


Starmer is a strange man, one of the strangest we've seen in recent years and it's a tough field for anyone to stand out as strange. If he has “stabilised the economy”, then even a few Labour voters might wonder what an unstable economy looks like.

Naturally enough Starmer is still pushing the line that Burnham is a serious party choice for Labour and not a stand-in for someone willing to take the party all the way to the next general election. Burnham won't see himself as a stand-in and maybe he's right if nobody plausible wants the job.

Apart from the economy he claims to have "stabilised", Starmer hasn't even stabilised his party politically - they don't know what they are doing. Dud ideologies, dud MPs, habitual mendacity, furtive malice and pervasive stupidity don't help, but Starmer didn't do much about that, still seems to see it as part of the job. Perhaps many voters do too.