RIGHT-WING FEUD STRENGTHENS ANDY BURNHAM'S BID TO BE NEXT BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

If Andy Burnham wins Thursday's election in Makerfield, the seat he needs to challenge Prime ​Minister Keir Starmer for the country's leadership, it may have less to do with his own appeal than the feuding of two populist right-wing parties splitting their vote.

The election ‌is shaping up to be one of the most consequential one-off contests in modern British political history. The 77,000 voters who live in Makerfield, in northern England, could decide the identity of the prime minister governing almost 70 million people.

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