Reeves hints she accepts Burnham will not keep her as chancellor – UK politics live

Key events Trump calls Burnham a town mayor who's 'extremely liberal', complaining he's unlikely to 'open up North Sea' Donald Trump has labelled Andy Burnham “extremely liberal”, in his first public comments about the former Greater Manchester mayor since he emerged as the frontrunner to replace Keir Starmer. Here is our story. In US politics, when rightwingers use the term “liberal”, they do so pejoratively and they use it to mean leftwing. Reeves hints she accepts Burnham will not keep her as chancellor, and won't say if she will accept more junior cabinet post Good morning. Rachel Reeves now seems to resigned to losing her job as chancellor when Andy Burnham becomes PM, probably three weeks tomorrow. She had reportedly been angling to stay in post, but she has given an interview to the BBC with a tone that is distinctly valedictory. Reeves says she is backing Burnham to be the next PM. Asked why she did not stand in Downing Street to hear Keir Starmer’s resignation speech on Monday, but did turn up in Westminster Hall for a photocall with Burnham with other Labour MPs, she did not offer an explanation, but said her loyalty to Starmer had never been in doubt. She also said she was proud of her record. double quotation mark I know that whoever is prime minister and chancellor in the future will inherit a stronger economy than the one I inherited two years ago. …