British Prime Minister Andy Burnham yesterday declared that FIFA President Gianni Infantino is not the right man to lead world football’s governing body, in the latest fallout from the abandoned plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors.

“I do not believe that he is the right man to lead football forward on the world stage,” Burnham said. “The plan that was put forward was offensive to many people, football people, around the world, and it can’t be the case that we just move on and forget that. It wasn’t acceptable.”

On Saturday, European football’s governing body, UEFA, said it had lost confidence in FIFA’s leadership — possibly paving the way for a challenge to Infantino’s presidency. Concacaf, the governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean, also said FIFA leadership had “stopped putting football first”.