Burnham rules out a snap election if he becomes PM

Andy Burnham has said he won't call a snap election if he becomes prime minister. Instead, he'll work with Labour's 2024 election promise. This sidesteps a problem that trapped his four predecessors — all inherited the top job mid-term without winning an election first, and opponents demanded they hold one. Burnham says the 2024 election win belongs to Labour's MPs as a group, not to him alone.