As James suggested, the mood is shifting against a Lib-Lab coalition this afternoon. And now the idea has been dealt
its biggest blow so far: Andy Burnham has spoken out against it public. Taking the kind of deliberate step that suggests he may be up for the Labour leadership after all, the Health Secretary
said:
And there’s more. According to the irrepressible Paul Waugh, Burnham first made his discontent known in Labour’s Cabinet meeting last night – where, according to Channel 4’s Gary Gibbon, he was joined by Bob Ainsworth, Sadiq Khan and Jack Straw. So, then, have the rainbow coalition-ers given battle in vain?“I think we have got to respect the results of the general election and we can’t get away from the fact that Labour didn’t win.”
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