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Chris Mason

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

But that is obviously where quite a lot of the attention is focusing.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Nigel Farage, as we've mentioned, that's where he's putting his focus.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

But also Kemi Badenoch.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

has also talked and the Conservatives have talked about how different groups of people shouldn't be treated differently by the police.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Kemi Badenoch has suggested that perhaps there's been, in her words, an overcorrection in relation to some of the concerns there have been about the way that police treat people of different races or religions in the past.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

So again, I think that's going to be another area of focus to see if anything does come out of this.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Although it's also worth saying the Prime Minister doesn't think that there is two-tier policing in this country.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Bye, Chris.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

I also think that this fight, if you want to call that, with Elon Musk is one that Keir Starmer is quite willing to have.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

I think he doesn't mind being seen as the man who's prepared to take on the tech billionaire who's pumping out a load of stuff on social media about British politics.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

I think Keir Starmer is quite happy to find himself in that position, even though he might also fundamentally disagree with everything that Elon Musk is saying.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

What's he going to be?

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Yeah, I mean, I haven't counted them all, but the FT did a little tot-up of all of these tweets, and they say there's been 110 in the past few days.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

So he's prolific when he decides he gets stuck into something, and he's been tweeting incessantly about this.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Yeah, although I do wonder that people maybe take it with a bit more of a pinch of salt now than they did, say, a few years ago, when I think X was just had maybe a little bit more traction in Westminster.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

But yeah, everybody's still on it and everybody's still looking at it.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

But I think most people now do so with the knowledge that it still isn't the real world.

Newscast
Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

However, it's something that gets a lot of pickup on X. And when Elon Musk Xs, clearly it does because he's the boss of it, right?

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

Yeah.

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Andy Burnham Says He Would Enter Labour Leadership Contest

then clearly they're going to be paying attention to it.