Photo by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street There was a point yesterday when Labour people reached a state approaching despair. Whether Keir Starmer loyalists or otherwise, they seemed to be ending a week of Labour convulsions weakened, divided and with no answer to their predicament on whether or not to change leader. “I really don’t know how we come together and stagger on after this,” one government loyalist mused. Most of the people I spoke to said they were sad, exhausted, lost. Labour seemed to be bound for stasis, and more convulsions in the coming weeks, with no resolution in sight. Then came the news that seems to have changed everything. Andy Burnham has found a seat to stand in, with caveats attached, and Labour could soon have a contest that a majority in the party wants, with its most popular politician able to be on the ballot paper. My phone flooded with messages of relief and excitement, including from Wes Streeting supporters who worried a contest without Burnham would look illegitimate.…