LABOUR leftwingers are switching their second-preference votes from Andy Burnham in protest at his “rightwards trajectory,” the Morning Star can reveal.

Leadership hopeful Mr Burnham provoked fury yesterday when he used an newspaper interview to savage the mansion tax as “spiteful.”

His outburst came as the heads of two non-Labour-affiliated trade unions urged activists to sign up as registered supporters of the party to vote for left challenger Jeremy Corbyn.