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Andy Burnham giving a speech in Manchester: "Are you ready for this."

Burnham: 'The time has come to build the broadest possible coalition of people to lift Britain to where we all want it to be. What hope can we have that it will be different this time? That's the question I would be asking if I was a voter right now.'

Burnham: 'After 10 years of political turbulence since Brexit, and 20 years of falling living standards ... Westminster hasn't been working for people and it hasn't been working for a very long time. In fact, it is broken.'

Burnham: 'We cannot go through another decade like the one we have just had. We need to change politics and we need to do it now. I am going to do things differently. I am going to break with the more of the same approach. I am going to give Britain the circuit breaker it needs.'

Burnham: 'But let's not kid ourselves, this is not as easy as it sounds. Westminster and Whitehall are set up for conflict. And they require radical change if the country is to get back on track.' He says power must be devolved.

Burnham: 'We are one of the most over-centralised countries in the world.' 'I'll be honest, I was worried about what I found on my return. It is a more fragmented, disjoined place than the one I left, and frankly, I will work hard to change that culture.'

Burnham says he will not use the whipping system to rule by fear, will be inclusive, reach out to oppn parties, will let MPs be their authentic selves. But says 'the political direction I set up is not for negotiation.'