Answering a question from Sky News’ Sam Coates, Andy Burnham said:
“I am of the view that that debate – and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be debate at some point about those issues – personally I think there’s something that needs to happen first, and that’s the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care. I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in the context of people not receiving that care and having the peace of mind about care, and that’s the position that I will stick to.”
That’s a delay of some years if Burnham is insistent on it…
Bookmark this from Andy Burnham:
2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”