Political Quotes

Andy Burnham

The Public Record

Sep 27, 2026

They have that right, but it was determined. The future was determined, I would say, for a generation.

heraldscotland.com
Sep 27, 2026

It's about control. If you strip it back, and all the fluff and the verbiage, you can actually strip it back to one word, which is control.

heraldscotland.com
Sep 27, 2026

Well, it's hard to conclude that he's anything other than someone who has racist views.

heraldscotland.com
Sep 27, 2026

This is not something we've seen in this country before, and it's not something we want to see.

heraldscotland.com
Sep 27, 2026

These have got to be the priorities right now rather than throwing the country into a backward-looking process where we are arguing again amongst ourselves.

heraldscotland.com
Sep 27, 2026

The first step the PM could do today, from the podium of his inaugural party conference is to commit to ending the prosecution and jailing of people as terrorists just for standing up against war crimes and genocide.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

Continuing the charade of the proscription of Palestine Action is illogical, unsustainable and immoral.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

We had hoped the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, would do the sensible thing and bin the ban on Palestine Action given the weight of public pressure to do so and the escalating amount of resources required in enforcing it.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

We need to set out a new direction for the country and I will set that out on Tuesday.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

This Labour government is bringing back hope for people across the country.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

We will step in to help more first-time buyers onto the housing ladder, especially those who can’t call on the bank of mum and dad.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

We’re going to make this a really important week where we set out a new direction for the country. We’ve had a decade since Brexit and it’s been a decade of too much drift, too much division, and we need to draw a line on that.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

Somebody needs to grasp the nettle. I will be the one to do that and I realise it might require me to spend some political capital.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

Is there any wonder that politics is in such low esteem with the public when it can’t fix something as basic as the care that we give to each other?

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

To be honest with you, broken social care will, in the end, break the national health service if we leave it like it is.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

I will develop a very clear plan, and I will put that plan to the public at a general election.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

I describe social care in England as being as unfair as American healthcare, where the most vulnerable in society can lose everything.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

For me, obviously, coming in to this journey as prime minister as my dad was ending his, has been hard. But it pushes me on, and I’m going to grasp the nettle on social care.

independent.co.uk
Sep 27, 2026

The job that I have, that the Secretary of Northern Ireland has, is upholding the Good Friday Agreement, and I take that responsibility really seriously.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

There have been big gains made in Northern Ireland, and we don’t want to see things go backwards.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

I know it’s a tense situation. We do appeal for calm on all sides.

thenational.scot
Sep 27, 2026

I think people need to remember that measures have already been taken.

theguardian.com
Sep 27, 2026

“Who is going to do something to actually make it real? I’m saying to you that I am going to address this directly.”

theguardian.com
Sep 27, 2026

“I think the public want to see, number one, honesty about things. So not spin or putting things a certain way that’s self-serving. They want honesty, and then they want, I think, difficult but real decisions.”

theguardian.com

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