Keir Starmer has no plan to turn the country around and runs the Labour Party in a 'divisive way', Andy Burnham suggested yesterday.
In what appeared to be a pitch for a return to Westminster, the Greater Manchester Mayor said 'wholesale change' was needed.
Ahead of the Labour conference this weekend, he refused to rule out a leadership bid and said he would be happy to play 'any role' as he criticised the Prime Minister's approach. 
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said 'wholesale change' was needed and revealed he has been approached to challenge Keir Starmer (Pictured May 14, 2025)
He said: 'To me, the issue of the conference is not who is the deputy leader [or] who is leader. The issue is: where is our plan to turn the country around? This kind of challenge... cannot be met by a very factional and quite divisive running of the Labour Party.'
As Sir Keir flails in the polls after a series of calamities, Mr Burnham told The New Statesman: 'I'm going to put the question back to people at Labour conference: are we up for wholesale change?
'Am I attracted to going back into my old world and the old way of doing things in Westminster? Well no, I wouldn't find that attractive.
'[But] am I ready to work with anybody who wants to put in place a plan to turn the country around? I'm happy to play any role. Yes. Because the threat we're facing is increasingly an existential one.' He called for a 'rolling back of the 1980s' with utilities such as housing, energy, rail and water in public ownership.
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