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Makerfield MP Andy Burnham is being tipped to appoint two senior Blairite figures to the House of Lords – amid growing speculation that Ed Balls could soon join David Miliband on the red benches 🔴 Exclusive from Caroline Wheeler & Kitty Donaldson Read more: trib.al/EFNVWWm

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I really don't know how seriously to take any of this. I strongly suspect most of these tip-offs are coming from the people named. Ed Balls going to the HoL says a presenter of Good Morning Britain who does not wish to be named. Wes Streeting to be Chancellor says an anonymous individual from...

... Ilford North. Mahmood doing a great job in the eyes of Andy Burnham, a factoid leaked to the press from somewhere in the Home Department. Burnham thinks Starmer laid an excellent foundation for his leadership says someone we will name only as Victoria to preserve her anonymity. And the...

For most of us, he never had any good will to squander. Good will is earned.. he so far has only demonstrated that he is a power hungry opportunist that is easily swayed by the breeze Starmer with a northern accent - continuity, but in a T-Shirt

That good will only ever existed in the minds of sensible centrists. Same pattern every time, they project what they want to be true, mostly joining the EU, while ignoring what that person is *actually saying & doing*, & then we go round again 😕

oh cool more democracy gifts for services rendered in this case, a morning tv labour propagandist

Andy would be digging his own grave there. I suspect this is just another LabourTogether litmus test / distraction / infighting. I mean who cares really, Labour are dead in the water, the only thing that matters is who will replace them.