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Burnham promises more devolution and public control of essential services
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Burnham was offering "more government control, more taxes and more politicians", as he addressed MPs for the first time as PM.
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House of Commons By Kate Whannel Political reporter Published 1 hour ago Andy Burnham has promised to set out plans for "stronger public control" of essential services as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since taking power. The prime minister said "a series of wrong turns" since the 1980s had seen economic power in the UK privatised and pointed to the water industry as "a leaking monument to that approach - a country run in the private rather than public interest".
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