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New PM says he ‘wouldn’t get carried away’ by latest polling but says he is pleased if he has ‘connected with people’ I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am),… And yesterday Peter Walker wrote up the lines in the interview from Burnham saying he would disagree with Donald Trump if necessary.

Money | The Guardian reports that new PM says he ‘wouldn’t get carried away’ by latest polling but says he is pleased if he has ‘connected with people’ I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am),…

The report adds: And yesterday Peter Walker wrote up the lines in the interview from Burnham saying he would disagree with Donald Trump if necessary.

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