From BBC News.

Andy Burnham has announced that he is seeking permission to stand in the upcoming Gorton and Denton parliamentary MP by-election.

Currently mayor of Greater Manchester, he insisted he wants to back the UK’s Labour government "not undermine it" and said that the decision to announce his intentions had been "difficult".

The seat in Greater Manchester is vacant after Labour’s Andrew Gwynne stood down on Friday as MP on health grounds.

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