Labour's ruling body will allow Andy Burnham to stand in a parliamentary by-election
If he wins Mr Burnham could mount a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer.
Labour's National Executive Committee has given the go-ahead for Andy Burnham to seek selection to be the party's candidate in a by-election in Makerfield. Also: The UK and other European countries have signed a landmark declaration, which calls on courts to rethink how they decide migration cases, in a bid to make it easier to deport illegal migrants. And China's foreign minister has announced that President Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation from Donald Trump to travel to the United States later this year.
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