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🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham builds an electrical circuit to show he’s a “circuit-breaker” in British politics
🚨 NEW: Rupert Lowe has refused to say if King Charles is a white Briton
“Many people have different interpretations of that”
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says he will be "relentless" on small boats after visiting Border Force at Dover
"Rather than play politics with the issue, we will just deal with it head on, grip it"
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig has won the Greater Manchester Mayoral election
🔴 LAB: 309,525 - 66.3%
➡️ RFM: 157,178 - 33.7%
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is set to ban rapists from being released under the prisoner early release scheme
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has revealed he smokes around 20 cigarettes a day
🚨 NEW: The NHS puberty blockers trial will start recruiting children as young as 11 from August after the High Court rejected a legal challenge
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has called for employers to stop conducting interviews on Zoom or Teams and using AI to filter through CVs
"How does a young person shine in that situation? How do you get over some of your personality, your passion?"
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🚨 BREAKING: A Reform UK councillor in Sunderland has been charged with posting a grossly offensive comment after writing in 2024 that Nigerians should be melted down to fill in potholes
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🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says carers should be the "best paid people in society, not the worst"
"Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad. I want those carers to know that we appreciate you"
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🚨 WATCH: Zack Polanski says he won't apologise to Nigel Farage over the post he shared by "mistake"
"When the person posted it, it got less than 1,000 likes... it's now had 3.2m views. So actually this has been seen more because Farage, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice posted it"
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says the “plan is working” to stop the small boats
“Overall boat crossings are down, down quite significantly year on year”
🚨 UPDATE: The Met Police are now assessing Reform UK's "incitement to murder" report against Zack Polanski
"We take reports of this nature extremely seriously, and officers are conducting enquiries into the matter"
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🚨 UPDATE: Reform UK has now reported Zack Polanski to the police for "incitement to murder" as Nigel Farage separately calls for his arrest
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham officially has a 50:50 gender split in his Government
There are 84 women and 83 men across Ministers and PPSs
🚨 UPDATE: Reform UK has now reported Zack Polanski to the police for "incitement to murder" as Nigel Farage separately calls for his arrest
🚨 NEW: Labour and Reform are now tied in the latest YouGov poll
🔴 LAB: 22% (+1)
➡️ RFM: 22% (-1)
🔵 CON: 21% (+1)
🟢 GRN: 13% (=)
🟠 LDM: 11% (-3)
2,328 sample, 26-27 July
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham discusses the “Burnham bounce” in the polls
“I’m pleased to have kind of made the start where hopefully I’ve connected with people”
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has officially ruled out changing stamp duty this year
"That won't be happening... It's just not the case that we are bringing forward plans, on that scale, at this moment in time"
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🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says pubs should know "the cavalry is coming" to save them
"This is our heritage. It's working-class culture. Once pubs are gone, they don't come back"
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🚨 NEW: A court sketch of Joshua Kerry, the man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe with a hammer
