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Andy Burnham: “The speech is a moment to weave all of these threads together and to lay out the path, I think, and say, ‘Look…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2026
The speech is a moment to weave all of these threads together and to lay out the path, I think, and say, ‘Look, Britain’s here, we can be there’ – a much better place – ‘but we’re going to have to be honest with ourselves about what it takes to get from where we are right now to where we should be.’
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

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Previewing his upcoming Labour conference speech.

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