I would say, in modern politics, it has always been something that I treasure to get a message from him, with his advice and the care and the thought he puts in to those messages. They mean everything to me.
Burnham reflecting on Neil Kinnock's influence.
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Politics has become too suffocating. We need greater ambition. The country is not where it should be and nothing simple gets us out of that. We need to show a journey and a longer-term plan.
We can do it, and we can be the nation in the next 10 years that… does find the cure for cancer, that does make the breakthrough on dementia, or indeed on nuclear fusion.
In my view, all political parties in the UK should do everything they can to support the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
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