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Andy Burnham: “The country is on quite a worrying path. Things are getting harder, and politics is getting more polarised, and the path…”

On the recordJune 14, 2026
The country is on quite a worrying path. Things are getting harder, and politics is getting more polarised, and the path we’re on, if we are not careful, is towards the politics of the United States, a polarised, poisonous politics where people in communities don’t work together any more.
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

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Warning about the state of UK politics.

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