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JEREMY CORBYN won a huge boost from his nearest rival in the last leadership campaign yesterday as Andy Burnham defied pressure to resign from the shadow cabinet.
The shadow home secretary, who finished a distant second in September 2015, issued a rallying call for party unity amid a co-ordinated campaign to depose Mr Corbyn.
“At an uncertain time like this for our country, I cannot see how it makes sense for the opposition to plunge itself into a civil war,” he said.
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership