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So let's dive into the first story today.

Andy Burnham has delivered his first speech as Labour leader.

That's just to confirm, again, the unopposed Labour leader and therefore unelected leader of the country.

He's never won an election.

He's never seen a ballot box.

People have never had the chance to vote for him, um, as a country.

So he's now going on about his changes that he wants to make to the country, how he wants to do this, that, and the other, and people haven't had the opportunity to have their say on whether that's something they want at all.

Now, what he is saying is that these policies that he's trying to put forward will be based on him winning the next election.

When is that...

When that is gonna be, I think it has to be by the 9th of December 2028, maybe even 2029.

So a fair way down the line.

Now, how much of this, uh, manifesto or how many of these policies that he's trying to get through happened before then is to be seen.

For example, the Labour manifesto that got them into power in 2024 specifically said no tax rises on working people.

So no income tax, no VAT.

I sound like the Only Fools and Horses song now.

No income tax, no VAT, and so on.

But they've obviously raised national insurance on employers, which will infect employee... will affect employees in terms of people getting pay rises and promotions and so on, 'cause obviously it will cost the employer more.

So they have taxed people more.

They've obviously increased inheritance tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax, corporation tax, and so on and so on and so on, any form of tax.

And it's very clear that when this new budget comes out in 26 days' time, there will be tax rises, and they have been very vague and very evasive in announcing which taxes will rise.

So that never is a good sign.

But what we'll probably see over the next couple of weeks is a few leaks into the press.

Just like we see ahead of any major policies, we see leaks, and then they garner public reaction and see what they can get away with.

But just to go through some of the major talking points of Burnham's speech, he paves the way to rejoin the EU, which we know is something that they have wanted for a very long time.

I stand by the fact that that out vote in 2016 was not part of the plan.