BBC: It has allowed Burnham and his team to road test an argument here – and we can expect to hear more of it in the coming days and weeks – that he is the Labour figure, unlike Sir Keir Starmer, who can beat Nigel Farage and Reform.
And so, the coming argument will go, he ought to be their party leader and your prime minister…
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