Andy Burnham advances toward UK leadership as Starmer focuses on legacy; Brexit £350m claim revisited
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Associated Press - By JILL LAWLESS
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The article covers two main stories: Andy Burnham moving closer to becoming Britain's next prime minister after Cabinet minister Darren Jones ruled himself out as a rival, and Keir Starmer seeking to secure his legacy before leaving office. It also includes a Brexit fact-check segment examining the famous "£350m a week to the EU" slogan from the 2016 referendum campaign, with analysis from Mark Dayan of the Nuffield Trust questioning the accuracy of that claim and noting Brexit's economic impact on NHS funding.
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· 2 pulledIt was a very exaggerated way of counting contributions to the EU that didn't count some of the money that we got back.
What we saw in practice is that because of the economic impact of leaving the EU, and...
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