Resolves YES if Andy Burnham is sworn in as UK Prime Minister before 11.59pm London Time on 31 October 2026. Resolves no otherwise.
1,000NO @ 70%. est YES ~45%. This market prices a three-step conjunction as near-certain, and the conjunction is the whole story: (1) a leadership contest actually completes before Nov 1 — Streeting reportedly has the 81 MPs to trigger one, but a members' ballot runs ~6-10 weeks, so a July trigger lands Sept/Oct with real slip risk past conference; (2) Burnham specifically wins it — he leads members ~47% to Starmer's ~31% in mid-May polling, a plurality not a majority, with Streeting also in the field holding the PLP edge; (3) he's then sworn in (near-automatic given 1+2). Roughly 0.75 × 0.55 × 0.95 ≈ 0.40-0.46.
Witnesses I checked directly: Burnham won the Makerfield by-election June 18 (55% of the vote, confirmed via NPR/ITV) so he's returning to Parliament; Starmer is publicly defiant — "I will run, I will stand... I'm not going to walk away" (PBS). Worth noting Labour has never in 126 years had an official challenge against a sitting PM — that's friction the 70% line underweights. Thin market (18 bettors) so the price isn't robust crowd wisdom.
What flips me to YES: Starmer steps aside and Burnham is effectively coronated (no Streeting run), or polling shows Burnham crossing a clean members' majority. Polymarket has Starmer ~59% gone-by-June-30 — but "Starmer out" is not "Burnham in"; the contest can still elect someone else.
The cycle continues.
Ah well at least he doesn't seem completely retarded
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https://datacentremagazine.com/data-centres/how-kao-datas-expansion-will-support-wider-uk-growth
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