He’ll get the “Spanish Archer”, El Bow!
:-)
As I said, it is possible, but I’m not so good on Labour’s internal politics that I can call it a certainty. Burnham is not the only possible candidate, and for the other candidates it would be very “unfortunate” if Starmer handed over the leadership to Burnham. They may try do something about it....
OTOH I saw an interview with the Restore leader Rupert Lowe by Jacob Rees-Mogg. Lowe got the question whether it wouldn’t be better to try to cooperate with the other conservative/nationalist parties than trying to go it alone. But he maintained that his party would be able to win the next election, which unfortunately, I think is a pipe-dream.