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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch and Tom Place

Andy Burnham sets out plans for Government in first Commons outing as PM

Britain needs to be “blunt about what went wrong” over the last four decades, Andy Burnham has said as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since becoming Prime Minister.

He hit out at the deindustrialisation and privatisation of the 1980s, and the impact of austerity and Brexit on areas of the UK outside of the South East and London.

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