The belief that Andy is more working class than Keir and is some sort of political outisder is quite the thing.

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Couldn’t agree more. So many people’s commentary on this story basically have an attitude of “a black man can’t commit s fraud”: either has to have had a helping hand from DEI or to have been blameless.

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One striking thing about our focus groups on Burnham's first 100 days is how much participants bought into Andy Burnham as an ordinary bloke from a working class background, whereas our polling in June found only 1 in 7 thought Keir Starmer had been born working class.

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Five years since Sir David Amess was tragically killed. A dedicated man devoted to his constituents and public service. My heart is with his family and loved ones. We owe it to his memory to challenge violent rhetoric. Violence must never be accepted in our politics.

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Tbf this is one instance of a broader dysfunction: persistent failure of many in Westminster networks to remember that Scotland and Wales (a) exist (b) now have v diff politics and patterns of party competition to England

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