Andy Burnham: ‘I am ready to leave Westminster and devote myself to Manchester’

Having failed to win the Labour leadership, the Leigh MP is now standing for mayor of Greater Manchester. But is he ducking out of the fight for his party?Beryl Dykes is doing a bit of shopping in Stockport when she spots Andy Burnham and shouts at him across the pavement. “Why did you not get in instead of that daft twit?”It’s a fair question, one that Andy Burnham admits that he’s spent a long time thinking about, though he’s too diplomatic to point out that he&rs