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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Six highlights from Andy Burnham’s first Downing Street speech

Andy Burnham gestures as he speaks outside the black front door of No 10
Burnham said his ‘first instruction’ as PM would be to end rough sleeping. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

It clocked in at a little more than five minutes, and contained several themes and phrases familiar to Andy Burnham watchers. Yet there was quite a lot to the new prime minister’s first speech in Downing Street. Here are some highlights.

‘I am acutely conscious that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street’

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