LABOUR leadership contender Andy Burnham is on the campaign trail. 

The Leigh MP paid a visit to Memory Lane Function and Banquet Hall in Bolton on Monday. 

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Earlier today, the shadow health secretary was at the People's History Museum in Manchester where he warned Labour's future "hangs in the balance" as he insisted he was the only candidate able to unite the party.

Mr Burnham told activists there is a "good deal of common ground" between him and Jeremy Corbyn on some of the major policy areas, including transport and education, as he reached out to supporters of the frontrunner.

But he warned there is a "real risk of division" following the increasingly bitter leadership contest and told the party it must "unite".