x     Andy Burnham, Labor’s former Greater Manchester mayor has won with a clear majority in a special election to the British parliament, and is ready to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the party leadership saying he wants “to lay out a new path for Britain“ and Labour needs to ”make life affordable” again. Burnham defeated the Reform U.K. party candidate by more than 9,000 votes, taking nearly 55% of the vote, in the election in Makerfield, in north-west England. A prominent figure