Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, has said that Andy Burnham has been raising “legitimate concerns” about Keir Starmer’s leadership.
But, in a phone-in with LBC, he also said he thought only “a small minority” of Labour MPs were unhappy with Starmer’s leadership.
He said:
I think Andy’s raising legitimate concerns he has, and, you know, he’s entitled to do so.
Asked by the presenter, James O’Brien, if he thought Burnham was manoeuvring for the Labour leadership, Khan said that was “your characterisation”.
He went on:
I think we’ve got 400 MPs, so it won’t be a surprise to anybody that there may be a small minority not happy with the leadership.
I’m going to conference next week, and the joy of conference when Labour is in Government far outweighs any concerns people may have.
Khan said he had no intention of running for any other job in politics himself.
