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19 June 2015

Andy Burnham has questions to answer on LGBT rights

We wouldn’t accept this voting record from a Tory leader. So why should it be OK for a Labour leader? 

By Benjamin Butterworth

The final four for the Labour leadership have their nominations, and we can now get on with having that “broad debate” everyone seems to want to talk about. At this stage the four don’t look fantastic, frankly, but they are faintly interesting.

Andy Burnham is clearly the frontrunner. He’s campaigning as the “heart of Labour”; the unity candidate. And he seems prepared to make some pretty bold statements on the campaign trail.

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