Andy Burnham on Keir Starmer, Manchester United, and the police
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The Crossroads of Professional Life and Personal Life
I'm still proud of so much of what that government achieved. But it was as I grew in confidence, because obviously what I came in as a loyal labour team player didn't have the confidence sometimes to voice how I might have felt about some of the policy positions. The big crossroads opened up in front of me in 2009 when Gordon had made me culture secretary,. I got an invitation to speak to the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. That basically threw me into a crisis for everything I've just said to you before. And I actually look back on it and think that when I took those steps, if you like, to finally go to Anfield as I'd made the decision
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