At Mr Burnham's victory rally in Makerfield, Ms Haigh said: 'I hope the Prime Minister takes the weekend to really reflect on the result here.'

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Andy Burnham plans to give Sir Keir Starmer one final chance to 'do the decent thing' and resign before orchestrating a move to remove him from Downing Street .