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Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he does not need to call a general election, speaking at a homelessness charity in London. He says, "we're in a parliamentary democracy, and I command a majority of MPs in the House of Commons".
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00:00Well, we're in a parliamentary democracy, and as we've seen through time, if somebody can command the majority of the
00:09MPs in the House of Commons, obviously, they then have the legitimacy to lead things forward.
00:15And I will lead forward consistent with the manifesto, which also talked about change. And I now want to work
00:24on the platform that Keir Starmer has left to deliver that change. A massive change in our politics. That's what
00:32number 10, North, is about. Taking the power out of Westminster and Whitehall into every postcode in the land, and
00:40from there, building a new economy.
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