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Burnham says he'll stick to the manifesto - but that there is 'room for movement on tax' Andy Burnham says he'll "stick by" Labour's 2024 general election manifesto "and the promises that it made".

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Nor does anyone else, alas, inject much-needed "dynamism". It takes a while to get used to Mirren's "lumpy facial prosthetics", said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph, but she gives a "focused and ...