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Andy Burnham on Keir Starmer, Manchester United, and the police

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The Discipline of New Labour

I think the country's in a really difficult place now given the way in which things have gone in recent times. I find it hard some days coming into here because I see the challenges people in Greater Manchester have got. Families made homeless, kids living in accommodation that's just not right for any child to be living in. And then you just see a inertia in Westminster in terms of failure to get to grips with the issues. The party does need to lean in more to the idea of change as well as stability. So I do think there's a further and final stage where it is about bringing that sense of optimism, that sense of change for the better. But we're not yet at

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