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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maira Butt,Nicole Wootton-Cane and Dan Haygarth

Andy Burnham speech latest: PM blames Brexit for ‘decade of low growth’ in first address to MPs

Andy Burnham has hit out at Brexit for ushering in a “decade of low growth” in his first address as prime minister in the House of Commons as Parliament returns from recess.

Mr Burnham listed Brexit in the “series of wrong turns” the country made since the 1980s and said that it had “compounded the problems” of deindustrialisation and over centralisation of government.

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