Like the characters in the Pixar classic Toy Story, much of the Labour Party is apparently waiting for Andy, marking time till their hero returns to rescue them from the futility of their existence under Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Not all those Labour MPs who fill their longueurs assembling their dream team for a post-Starmer era have resolved to hand the premiership to Andy Burnham. But there is, for the party at least, an inescapable logic for viewing the Manchester mayor as the best prospect for renewal.
Yet this logic might easily escape the party — which is why so much of the intrigue of recent weeks has been about creating a narrative of momentum and inevitability.
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