Could ‘king in the north’ become Britain’s new prime minister? (opens in new tab)

Makerfield victory gives Burnham a path back to Westminster and a chance to challenge Starmer for PM“We know no king but the King in the North”, declares the young Lady Lyanna Mormont in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. In the early hours of Friday morning, in a nondescript conference hall in the north of England, it appeared that the electorate agreed.About 70,000 voters in a post-industrial region of north-west England may have changed the face of British politics this week, after electi...