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Chris Mason

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

by what you can only imagine the family felt when they saw that.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

What we had in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's questions was a quite strange and unusual kind of moment and tone, because it started off with the Prime Minister in his kind of opening remarks, as he often does, addressing this and talking about the Henry Novak case and almost paying tribute to the dignity of the family and calling for a moment of kind of

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

calm leadership on this and not rage.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

A direct reference to what Nigel Farage had said earlier in the week.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

You then had Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition, taking quite a similar tone, saying this was sort of a moment to come together, not to divide.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Although she did also say the police action should be a wake-up call for the country.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

You then had the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, saying something quite similar in tone.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

This is not a moment for division.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

All of it quite clearly aimed at the comments that Nigel Farage had made earlier in the week.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

It then came to Nigel Farage's moment because his name was on the list to ask a question in Prime Minister's Questions.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Which isn't always the case and happened to be the case this week.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

And he stood up and almost immediately he stood up

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

The rest of the kind of mood in the House of Commons changed.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

I wasn't in the House of Commons.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

I was watching this on telly, on the parliamentary telly.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

And other MPs immediately were kind of waiting for what he said.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

And he started to talk about the Henry Novak case.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

And he said what Reform UK's position has been, which is they think there is what they call two-tier policing in this country, whereby their view is that different groups of people are treated differently according to their race.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

And they don't think that that should be the case.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

As he started to speak, the other MPs in the House of Commons kind of really did turn on him.