Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Andy Burnham has found a seat to run in. In an extraordinary turn of events Josh Simons MP, a prime architect of the Starmer project, has turned on the Prime Minister and announced that he will surrender his seat of Makerfield with the explicit intention of being replaced as its MP by Burnham so that the Greater Manchester mayor can challenge Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party and the country. “Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield,” he said. “I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for,” he said in a statement to his constituents. Makerfield, on the western outskirts of Greater Manchester, has a comfortable but not huge Labour majority of 5,000. It stayed with the party even during its major national defeat in 2019.…