Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 15.19 EDT
Keir Starmer should resign if Labour loses the Batley and Spen byelection, the former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has said, suggesting the partyâs left wing would endorse a leadership run by Andy Burnham.
Her intervention comes as Sadiq Khan became the second prominent Labour mayor to reach out to the rest of the country, writing in the Yorkshire Post about breaching the divide between the north and his city, London.
Khan, widely considered a future party leadership contender, visited North Yorkshire on Wednesday, just a week after his re-election, which his team described as âa clear statement of his intent to build bridges between London and other regionsâ.