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Keir Starmer is a dead PM walking after rival's big win · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristin Amiott with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will launch
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  Speaker 1: a challenge for the UK Prime ministership after winning a
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  Speaker 1: resounding by election victory. Burnham won the makers Field by
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  Speaker 1: election by almost ten thousand votes on Thursday local time.
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  Speaker 2: We must now take this path and put this country
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  Speaker 2: back on the right path and bring people back together
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  Speaker 2: and get things working properly again.
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  Speaker 1: Burnham refused an offer of a job in Sir Kia
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  Speaker 1: Starmer's cabinet, setting him up to challenge the PM for
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  Speaker 1: the top job. Speculation has been swirling around Starmer's leadership
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  Speaker 1: for months after he was caught up in a scandal
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  Speaker 1: surrounding the appointment of Jeffrey Epstein acquaintance Sir Peter Mandelson
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  Speaker 1: as the UK's ambassador to Washington. The Australian's Europe correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magnate reports Starmer's team have been working to delay
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  Speaker 1: a leadership challenge by Burnham, which could come within days,
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  Speaker 1: and the embattled PM says he'll fight any leadership tilt
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  Speaker 1: that comes his way. The Australian Defense Force has been
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  Speaker 1: accused of fabricating evidence to cover up aircraft flaws in
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter crash that killed four soldiers during a training
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  Speaker 1: exercise in twenty twenty three. Retired Major Ian Wilson, the
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  Speaker 1: former lead test pilot of the MRH ninety Taipan with
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  Speaker 1: the corsign Bushman eighty three, told a Senate inquiry into
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  Speaker 1: the tragedy the crash near Queensland's Lindeman Island was quote
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  Speaker 1: completely foreseeable, and claimed the adf ignored warnings about operating
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  Speaker 1: the helicopters in certain conditions. Major Wilson also said the
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  Speaker 1: official investigation into the crash was quote corrupted and its
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  Speaker 1: findings were based on what he called fabricated evidence. The
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  Speaker 1: Honorable Margaret McMurdo found in twenty twenty five pilot fatigue
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  Speaker 1: and loss of spatial orientation were responsible for the crash,
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  Speaker 1: not helicopter flaws. The Australian's Chief Culture correspondent, Tim Douglas
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  Speaker 1: has picked up one of Australian journalism's top prizes for
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  Speaker 1: his exceptional reporting on the arts. Douglas was recognized at
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  Speaker 1: the Walkley Foundation's midyear ceremony on Thursday night, less than
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  Speaker 1: a year after The Australian's revamped culture section launched. You
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  Speaker 1: can check out Tim's award winning work right now at
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  Speaker 1: the Australian dot com dot au slash culture, and come
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  Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning for
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  Speaker 1: our look at the particular brand of Australian horror filling
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  Speaker 1: cinemas around the globe. That's right here, Saturday morning.