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Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee

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Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee
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He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realismAs Keir Starmer bid a brief and emotional farewell at that pillory of a lectern, there was a moment for some to ask: what have we done, and why? He’s not a bad man, not a Boris Johnson or Liz Truss rogue prime minister. How decadent, if lack of charisma has become a sacking offence.But the reason why isn’t written in Westminster. It’s there in councils up and down the co

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