His name has been plastered all over the press this week as whispers of his return to Westminster become louder by the day.

The rumours Andy Burnham is getting ready to challenge Sir Keir Starmer and try to take over as Labour Party leader are everywhere.

It comes after a chaotic couple of weeks for the government, which has seen Angela Rayner resign over a tax row, triggering a cabinet reshuffle and resulting in a deputy leadership contest in the party. With Ms Rayner out of the way, the path for his return has opened up.

"Angela was the argument that we didn't need Andy," a source on the left of the party told the Manchester Evening News following the Ashton-under-Lyne MP's resignation last Friday (September 5). "Now she's stepped down, it's all on the King of the North."

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