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Andy Burnham: “Sometimes in politics you have to say: ‘I’m going to break out of the consensus and start talking about those things in…”

On the recordAugust 5, 2026
Sometimes in politics you have to say: ‘I’m going to break out of the consensus and start talking about those things in a different way’, and it’s what I’ve started to do.
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

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On the need to change political discourse.

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