All the Keir Starmer critics landing big jobs under Andy Burnham – POLITICO

LONDON — Andy Burnham has spent the first 48 hours of his premiership picking a new top team. Some of the biggest winners? Sharp critics of the man he ousted.

The former Greater Manchester mayor has brutally culled key allies of his predecessor Keir Starmer — just days after he pledged to end a culture of factionalism in the governing Labour Party.

Starmer’s power as prime minister eroded throughout his time in office — and was chipped away at by colleagues who quit his government or openly called on him to go.