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[–] 32 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

John Oliver did an episode of Last Week Tonight on it recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZL_TctrNco

Basically, Andy Burnham has majority support within the Labour Party to be the next PM, but he wasn't a member of Parliament, which is necessary to challenge a current PM for the role. So the Parliament member for Makerfield resigned to hold a special election so that he could (hopefully) win the seat, which he did, and now he's set to become the new PM.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Ah, this explains it. I was wondering how some random person who won an off-cycle election could just jump into leadership like that. But it seems that he had the leadership support already, and the election was engineered to make him eligible.

    I was curious as to why none of the already elected Labour MPs would get the job. I guess none of them want it. Let's see if he lasts longer than my salad.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They're all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they'll have the support necessary to challenge.

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