{"id":432551,"date":"2026-06-22T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-politics-streeting-folds-decides-to-back-burnham-for-prime-minister-bid-432551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:15:41","slug":"uk-politics-streeting-folds-decides-to-back-burnham-for-prime-minister-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-politics-streeting-folds-decides-to-back-burnham-for-prime-minister-bid-432551\/","title":{"rendered":"UK politics: Streeting folds, decides to back Burnham for prime minister bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Wes Streeting was arguably going to be Andy Burnham&#8217;s number one contender for the Labour leadership but even he has now took a step back. That very much leaves Burnham in pole position by a huge distance at this stage, with nominations to officially open on 9 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Streeting&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">While the leadership contest is expected to run through the summer, there is a case where Burnham might be able to sit in office much earlier than that. If there is no other challenger, there is a possibility that Burnham could just walk into the prime minister&#8217;s seat shortly after the nominations close on 16 July. (h\/t @ Steven Swinford)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">With all the momentum riding on Burnham at the moment, I can&#8217;t imagine other lawmakers to be willing enough to challenge. As a reminder, any candidate will require 81 MP nominations in order to force a contest through the summer until September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Otherwise, Burnham will pretty much stroll into No. 10 virtually unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Streeting was arguably going to be Andy Burnham&#8217;s number one contender for the Labour leadership but even he has now took a step back. That very much leaves Burnham in pole&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}