
Andy Burnham gets green light to run for selection in by-election
Andy Burnham has been cleared to run for selection in the Makerfield by-election following days of speculation that he will challenge Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.
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Andy Burnham has been cleared to run for selection in the Makerfield by-election following days of speculation that he will challenge Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.

The Green Party hope they can use a by-election to pressure Andy Burnham into committing to electoral reform if he becomes Labour leader in the future.

Radical economic reforms such as cutting national insurance and overhauling capital gains tax are Labour's only ways of winning back voters they have lost to Reform and the Greens, a report will warn.


Zack Polanski is on walkabout in Manchester with Hannah Spencer, the Green's newest MP.

Electric vehicle charger firms have warned soaring energy bills will have to be passed on to drivers, risking a major setback for the government's green goals.

The government is reviewing its electric car sale quotas - one of its flagship green policies.

Green MPs have written to Ed Miliband demanding he set out plans to decouple electricity prices from gas, after Sky News revealed he was "looking into" the policy.

The son of Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott has joined the Green Party, Sky News can reveal.

Labour chair Anna Turley has met MPs to discuss the threat from the Greens after their party's Gorton and Denton by-election drubbing.

The Green Party has leapfrogged Labour into second place in a sensational poll by YouGov for Sky News.

At the wedding venue in Gorton and Denton the Green Party chose for the news conference to mark a seismic by-election victory on national television, it was clear that Zack Polanski and his team were new to all of this.