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You can watch more from Sir John’s full appearance on the show prior to this year’s local elections over on our YouTube channel

🔴: https://t.co/tuWbB80X1K

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Will scandal surrounding Nigel Farage hurt Reform UK? ➡️

Polling expert Prof. Sir John Curtice isn’t so sure. Here he is discussing that with Robert and Pippa👇

Do you agree?

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You can catch up on Martin’s full appearance on #Peston discussing energy bills, mobile phone contracts, student loans and much more over on our YouTube channel 👇

https://t.co/xZgUcgSFon

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“We’re all waiting to see what happens in October. Doesn’t look good.” 

Last month @MartinSLewis explained to @Peston why despite today’s energy price cap rise, the real crunch point for bills will come later this year 

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“Unless you change those things… you’re going to limit your ability to deliver” 💬

Policy expert and Andy Burnham backer @Neal_Compass explains to @Peston why devolution is essential to his future success

What do you make of ‘No.10 North’?

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Can Andy Burnham change Britain?

Polling for @itvpeston by @Moreincommon_ found voters see Burnham as representing change more than most other political leaders, with only Nigel Farage being seen as a more obvious ‘change’ option 📊

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7 PMs in 10 years since Brexit? 🇪🇺

Is British politics broken? And can Burnham buck the trend?

Catch up ITVX or YouTube @ITVPeston

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.@policylaila: Burnham…in 2022 kept calling for a general election, are you saying he was wrong?

@johnmcdonnellMP: On the doorstep, the first thing people said was give him his chance

Reform’s Laila Cunningham and Labour’s John McDonnell clash on calls for an election

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“What Labour tend to do is…go to different ethnic minorities and tell you this country has oppressed you”

Reform UK's @policylaila says her party does not ‘promote division’ and adds that ‘nobody knows what an Andy Burnham government will bring’

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“It absolutely means (more power to Mayors)”

Andy Burnham ally @Neal_Compass says the British democratic system is too ‘adversarial and…centralised’ and it’s ‘essential’ to have a fundamental ‘rewiring of the state’

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“We can’t allow any complacency”

Director of Compass @Neal_Compass says Andy Burnham must create change in Westminster rather than it becoming ‘business as usual’

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.@policylaila: “If you want to have a national conversation, you have to have a general election”

@AlistairCarns: “We need to have a conversation with our Labour MPs”

Reform UK's Laila Cunningham says that Burnham has ‘only sought a mandate from the Labour voters’

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“My view is Ed Miliband because of his experience”

Labour MP @johnmcdonnellMP says that if he was Andy Burnham he would ‘get on with it’ and appoint former Labour leader @Ed_Miliband as Chancellor

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“I’m not ready to make a decision on this”

Former Armed Forces Minister @AlistairCarns has not yet decided whether he will run for Labour leadership but says we need to have a ‘national conversation’ about ‘what this country wants to be at the next election’

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We are 🅻🅸🆅🅴 at 10.45PM on YouTube👇
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Joining @Peston and @PippaCrerar tonight:

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🪖@AlistairCarns
🧭@Neal_Compass
🌹@NazShahBfd
💼@johnmcdonnellMP
➡️@policylaila

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Labour MPs hope Andy Burnham can turn around their fortunes in the polls 🌹

BUT this from @Ipsos_in_the_UK shows that on many key qualities he polls better than Keir Starmer now, but weaker than Starmer in 2024 🤔

More on this from @PippaCrerar at 1045PM on @ITV 📺

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Join us 🅻🅸🆅🅴 at 10:45PM on YouTube and ITV1 as we discuss Keir Starmer's resignation and if Andy Burnham is destined to be our next PM with @D_G_Alexander, @AlistairCarns, @Neal_Compass, @NazShahBfd, @johnmcdonnellMP and @policylaila

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“The Labour Party is world class at losing elections”

Secretary of State for Scotland @D_G_Alexander says the manifesto was ‘fundamental’ to Labour’s mandate but that the ‘character of the leader’ matters as much as the ‘details’ of the document

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“I respect, understand and support the decision that Keir Starmer has reached today”

Secretary of State for Scotland @D_G_Alexander says Starmer has ‘characteristically put country first’ and the party must ‘take forward the work of change that’s begun’

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.@Peston: “For you, this is the definitive change…he will lead you into the next election?”

@D_G_Alexander: “I believe he will”

Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander says, if elected, Andy Burnham will be Labour leader at the next General Election

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