Posted on 05/08/2015 2:32:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bookmakers place former health secretary ahead of Yvette Cooper, Chuka Umunna and others to take over in wake of Miliband resignation
Andy Burnham has emerged as the favourite to replace Ed Miliband, after the Labour leader stood down in the hours after the party’s disastrous general election result.
Bookmakers placed the former health secretary ahead of Yvette Cooper, Chuka Umunna and others to take over from Miliband. According to one bookmaker, David Miliband was also in the running. But others agreed that Dan Jarvis and Tristram Hunt had a better chance.
The contenders Andy Burnham Live Election live: Osborne and May return in new Cameron cabinet Shock results deliver Tories overall Commons majority and claim leadership scalps of Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage. Our political team guides you through the fallout Read more Reasons for: Burnham didn’t get much support the last time he stood for the leadership, when he made it to the second of four rounds of voting without ever really challenging. That he is the only one of the five candidates from that election seriously in the running this time, however, says a great deal about his performance ever since.
Perhaps predictably, he claimed to have no interest in the job as the exit polls were released on Thursday evening. “The only job I want tomorrow is to be health secretary in Ed Miliband’s government,” he said.
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“Burn ham?” Isn’t that Islamophobic?
I support Chuka Umunna as the head of the Labour Party!
All that stupid propaganda about women’s rights, Islamofellatio and such and still not representative of holy diversity, shocked I am.
this is what happens to pissant Brit Libs when they don’t get their way :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUQ6aPvs58
I would to see the EDL catch this guy and Anjem C
and drag them both thru an old British town by horses .
From watching BBC and SKY’s election coverage, the consensus is that Labour lost because they didn’t promise enough Unicorns and Free Schit.
And with a campaign slogan of “Vote for Change, Vote for Hope!” the libs are just ASTOUNDED that they didn’t win.
Labour wants to return to the pre-Blair days and abandon the center.
That’s why it lost so badly.
Voters don’t need a crash course to figure out that reverting the UK to being the sick, old man of Europe isn’t everything its cranked up to be.
They voted “no” to that kind of future in droves.
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