Burnham's Uncontested Coronation Draws Comparisons To Sunak's 2022 Tory Crowning

The Keir Starmer premiership has finally come to an end. It takes a unique scale of failure for Labour to have gone from 411 MPs to the man who led them resigning less than two years later and Michael Heaver argues Starmer's time in office was defined by talking a good game and achieving almost nothing, pointing to the government's failure to stop illegal migrant boats crossing the Channel on a near-daily basis.Starmer's resignation speech itself, delivered with music playing in the background, is described by Michael Heaver as a national embarrassment showing a decline in standards. In it, Starmer said: "The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace." Polling shows the country overwhelmingly believes he was right to resign, including a majority of Labour voters.Andy Burnham is now widely expected to become the next Labour leader and Prime Minister in an uncontested "coronation." Michael Heaver draws a comparison to 2022, when Burnham himself demanded a general election after a Conservative leadership change a demand Angela Rayner echoed at the time over Rishi Sunak's uncontested coronation. With Nigel Farage and Reform now calling for an election, and even some Labour voices agreeing one should be held, Michael Heaver argues Labour would be hypocrites to avoid one and hopes a general election follows, especially since Burnham wasn't even an MP at the time of the last one.What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.