At the first meeting of his new cabinet, Andy Burnham told ministers they must get the cost of living down and he said they must always show how the policies to do that will be paid for.
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At the first meeting of his new cabinet, Andy Burnham told ministers they must get the cost of living down and he said they must always show how the policies to do that will be paid for.
But by the time he said those words, a row had already broken out over the funding for his first announcement, the abolition of VAT on electricity bills
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