"We had to choose between losing the by-election or losing the mayoralty" is quite amazing as the Labour Party's own line, yet it is impossible to refute. Only Andy Burnham could have won either of them for it, so it told him to stay where he was, where he could not stand for Leader, as he would have done, and done successfully. Say it again that that is Labour's own line, and that it is undeniably correct.
The Blairites have never trusted Keir Starmer, but they accept that keeping him for now is the way to guarantee a transition to Wes Streeting, who unlike Burnham has never so much as deviated in the tiniest degree from their defining domestic policy objective of privatising England's National Health Service. How soon that transition will come may now depend on the more traditional right wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party, a tendency to which, were it to gain any traction, the story of Starmer's "unleashing the witch hunt against British troops" would be more shocking than to any other element of the House of Commons from east of the Irish Sea.
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