Labour claimed they didn’t want Burnham to stand because forcing a mayoral election would hurt them in the pocket. And pretty much immediately, an unnamed Labour MP shot back:Labour MP hits back at Andy Burnham's claim the party has never supported him in his 3 mayoral election campaigns. Back to the actual point, Burnham said he had no support from the ‘party’; not no support from the ‘membership’. The mysterious Labour MP knows this, of course, but the job of a modern politician is to pretend not to understand things. Another Labour MP without integrity desperately deflecting.