Seeing as Burnham has gotten enough nominations to guarantee that he will be PM in 9 days, I figured it was about time to start the Labour government thread that we will use for his tenure atop the Labour Party.

(the number is 322 out of 403, so mathematically one short of a guarantee, but with 3 Labour MPs in positions who cannot vote, deputy speaker, PLP chair and party chair, it is guaranteed and would be anyway with these levels of overwhelming support and no other declared candidates)

Current first days of Burnham in No. 10 reported as such:

The i Paper

Burnham to target energy bills, bus fares and student loa...

Incoming prime minister is said to be holding consultations to introduce measures to immediately ease the cost of living

(full text found in the comments section of this reddit thread) https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1ustuk1/burnham_to_target_energy_bills_bus_fares_and/

In an embarrassing cock-up, the Daily Mail front page for 22 July has been leaked. Under the headline "Burnham in major sleaze row" the story begins "New Prime Minister Andy Burnham faced increasing calls to quit last night as it was revealed that he received three Ready Salted crisps from an employee of a company which was later awarded a £10,000 contract by a Labour council."

Starmer tipped to see HM The King around 10 am then Burnham at 11. Starmer's last PMQ's today.

Mahmood now hot favourite to be new Chancellor with Cooper demoted too. Ed Miliband either to back benches or stays in role.

Any thoughts?

I’m a big Ed fan with him taking on the populist right and their views on drill baby drill. But not sure a left wing Labour PM can appoint a left wing chancellor so would imagine it’ll be someone like Mahmoud or McFadden.