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Andy Burnham: “We can't make all the great English cities be what they should be without big change at the national level. I always…”

On the recordJune 19, 2026
We can't make all the great English cities be what they should be without big change at the national level. I always knew one day I would seek to go back to Westminster to complete that unfinished business.
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

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