Andy Burnham Would Have Been A Distraction In Westminster | Douglas Alexander
January 26, 2026
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as posted by the channel“I served in both Tony and Gordon's cabinets…frankly, we wasted a whole lot of time on political psychodrama.”
Scotland secretary Douglas Alexander defends the decision to block Andy Burnham's by-election bid telling Labour MPs “not to be distracted by who’s up and who’s down”.
Douglas Alexander was speaking to Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every day 6-10am.
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