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Well @UKLabour you’ve massively fucked up - over to king of the vague, I need 3 months @AndyBurnhamGM - big big shoes to fill mate. Well done @10DowningStreet Kier Starmer

@ToryMemo82 Pardon

Fair play.

For us. For fairness. Politics isn't working. For far too long. Put big light on. Barm cakes. Putting the heart back into communities. The Smiths. But not Morrissey, obviously. People up and down this country. Decency. Hard working people. Communities. Picky teas. For our city-region. For all city-regions. Everton. Next door but one. Since 2001. Buses. Yellow buses. Hard working buses, up and down this country. Price caps. Price freezes. Giving back. Not taking enough to begin with. People are sick and tired. Wealth tax. Fairness. Tax land, tax money. Tax wealth. Tax growth. Tax growth to make growth. We're all immigrants, aren't we? No more being in hock to the bond markets. Increase borrowing. Increase spending. Doorsteps. What I'm hearing on the doorsteps. Good touch for a big man. We do things differently here. Wherever here might be. Politics of that which we have in common is moreso in common with unity than that which divides us can divide us from us. Chippy tea. Sad smile. Grass. Selfies. Fourteen years of Tory hurt didn't stop me dreaming. Jogging by the motorway. Like my grandad and his grandad before him. Chuckle. Little chuckle. Well, some people might say that. Guitars. Music. Nothing more esoteric than Elbow. I like Oasis, but I don't condone all the fighting and wouldn't like them now. Bricks. Houses. Terraced houses. Council houses. Ordinary people. Ordinary people like you and me, who haven't got embarrassing comments in their past because they've barely said anything of note. Politics, eh, who'd go into that? No, I wouldn't say I'm a saviour exactly. But the Labour Party has to be saved and I'm the only one who can do it. Milquetoast? I'm not really familiar with the term, but I like milk and I love toast, haha. They serve toast in the breakfast clubs, and we should honour Sir Keir's legacy really. Fantastic Prime Minister. Just not for very long. I love this country that I love, I'm very patriotic. But the flag is divisive, and we need to have a debate about that. A debate about whether or not it's divisive, about which I have no opinion. I went to Cambridge, and I'm not afraid to admit that. Ordinary lad done good. I've seen the system from the inside. I've seen the system from the outside. I've seen the system from Merseyside. It's not working. Not for ordinary folk like you and me. I'm a man, and I'm not afraid to admit that. But it is divisive, and we should have a debate about that. The North. People say it's grim up north, hah, maybe that's why we're more realistic up here. We know the problems people are facing, because we're the ones what's facing 'em. Regional inequality is something I'm passionate about. It's not fair that pints are only £7 in Manchester when pub landlords in London are raking in much more. Minimum wage for pints. Get young people earning, so we can tax them. Doe eyes. Glasses. I'm a bit older, a bit wiser, a bit heavier, haha. Ask me mates, they'll tell you. Don't ask them, actually. They're made of cardboard. I've always cared about equality. Sharing is caring, as my kids say. I think my wife taught them that. As PM I will do everything in my power to put every town in this country on the map. Of this country. Manchester feels half the world away. I've been lost, I've been found, but I don't feel down the back of the sofa for loose change. Not a bad idea though, in fairness. Fairness. Barrow-in-Fairness. In fairness, fairness isn't a bad idea to be fair. I'm from Wigan, me. As honest as can be. Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. Change. Believe in change. Believe deeply in unspecified change. And hope. Hope deeply for belief in unspecified change. Keep calm and carry the shopping back from the car in one go. For Andy. For us. Forever.

@MattChorley @reallorraine Less people, more talent

Took @reallorraine to PMQs Took a selfie too Hear her verdict: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mat…

@BethRigby @IzzyLosseff Can we get Alan Partridge to play him in the movie

I asked in our video on #PMQs what Andy Burnham might have thought of being called ‘a pair of eyelashes & a black t-shirt’. We have our answer @IzzyLosseff

@danbloom1 Why poor you - what did you do, like a dodgy dm you’d get on insta

What is happening

@TamoorT Weird weird weird

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@PippaCrerar Someone tell him to stop it - looks like he’s looking down his pants 🩲

The probable next PM’s comms style is gonna be quite different from what we’re used to…

@peterowens71 @moving_charlie It’s all bullshit esoteric thinking- I’ve just seen another post how he’s thinking about welfare & linked to social problems - if he’s not careful 2029 will come & he’ll have more unfinished projects than a builder in North Korea

@moving_charlie Dan Neidle wrote an article that to achieve PPT or a LVT then Stamp Duty, Business rates & Council Tax would need abolishing….how that would be achieved in the medium to long term is open to debate

Andy Burnham supports the Fairer Share campaign’s proposal to replace Council Tax and Stamp Duty with a Proportional Property Tax (PPT) at a flat 0.48% of current property value. The £1,200 initial annual cap on increases and claims that 77% of households would save (average £556) match details from the campaign and recent analyses showing benefits for most lower- and mid-value homes. High-value properties, especially in London and the South, would face higher bills, potentially shifting billions northward, while second homes and empty properties pay double (0.96%). We need more details. This has the potential to have a big impact on the housing market.

This sounds to me like an ill thought out pile of crap

@tomjc09 Not if it comes at huge expense with little impact

i actually think the decentralisation of power outside of london is a good thing

I think some of Burnhams fan club are going to find the next stage very different to talking to Joan in Makerfield

@LBC @BenKentish Absolutely nailed him- I think Burnham needs tell him keep his head down in York

'Don't you see how this looks!?' @BenKentish confronts Labour's Luke Charters on the 'double standard' of Andy Burnham being 'anointed' after he demanded a general election from the Tories.

@SamCoatesSky - now you know the reason for the pause ‘bus conductor’

@thomasforth @FT People don’t give a toss

"Andy Burnham looks to move part of Number 10 operations to Manchester" > he should move it all. And Parliament. The strength of the British constitution is flexibility. Would be such a big statement of positivity. Will he be brave enough to try? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac… via @FT

🚨 Andy Burnham announces plans for "Bee Bonus", a pension top-up payment for retirees in the North, in bid to address regional inequality. The "Bee Bonus" will be funded by charging VAT on rail season tickets into London.

Appalling

@WhitbyHarvey No sycophants on tap

Why not in birmingham the second city ?

@Edwina_Currie Remember all the stick you used to get Edwina. Don’t agree with your politics but honestly they should see what challenge was like!

You thin-skinned entitled madam!! You're a senior Minister of the Crown - you should yourself be more dignified than this. And you should be too damn busy to care. 👇👇🤬🤬🇬🇧🇬🇧

@MaggieScarisbr1 Likelihood very high with them

If Andy Burnham wants to string this out until September, perhaps he should try to find a willing sacrificial lamb to stand against him. I'm sure the offer of a cabinet position could persuade somebody.

@frlydensmith @bphillipsonMP @KemiBadenoch Father Could you offer some counsel to the whole Labour Party of the unknown consequences of upward bullying 🙏

I think @bphillipsonMP is doing a wonderful job. People may well disagree. She has an extremely important role and so all her policy matters deserve serious debate. But disagreement should not tempt us into contempt in the way @KemiBadenoch showed today. Democracy depends upon the difficult grace of listening to those with whom we differ and seeking together what serves the common good. Not lashing out with judgment and indignation. Our children deserve more than partisan triumphalism. They deserve an education that awakens wonder, nurtures character, and enables every young person, whatever their background, to flourish.