🌹NEW: Pressure on the Prime Minister over blocking Andy Burnham's return to Westminster. 50 Labour MPs from the left and centre of the party have written to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood, the Chair of Labour's NEC, in protest over the blocking of Burnham's candidacy for the Gordon and Denton by-election next month. 👀In the letter seen by Good Morning Britain, the MPs write that the decision has caused huge "anxiety and anger" with Labour MPs and party members, and that an 'unimaginable' loss of the stronghold constituency to Reform UK must now be taken "very seriously". They argue there is "no legitimate reason" to block Burnham's "democratic right" and warn the decision risks looking like a "stitch-up", which they claim is a "gift" to Farage and Reform UK when Burnham is Labour's 'very best chance' of winning the seat. The MPs are calling for an urgent full meeting of Labour's governing body, the NEC, to re-evaluate denying Burnham's permission to stand and to allow local members to choose their candidate. #GMB

Burnham on GMB rules out seeking to undo Brexit and rejoin the EU ‘this parliament’ … 💣 Fire in the hole

Crikey, @Alison1mackITV’s interview with Kemi Badenoch was brought up by a barista in my local coffee shop when I mentioned I was on my way to Birmingham. The guy didn’t know Kemi’s name, but he had seen this clip with the Conservative leader not knowing that Brum is Britain’s ‘second city’.

‘I will continue to give my full support to the Prime Minister’, says Keir Starmer as he confirms his resignation as an MP, just hours before Andy Burnham’s first Commons appearance as PM

Sure only 255 Brits died