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ANDY Burnham has won the crunch Makerfield by-election, setting him on course to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. If the self-styled "King in the North" takes the top job it will be without the mandate of the electorate. But he was branded a hypocrite last night after it emerged that he called for...