Chancellor defends PM amid leadership threats

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has spoken out in defence of the Prime Minister after Andy Burnham claimed Labour MPs are privately urging him to seek leadership. "When Keir ran for the leadership people said Labour couldn't come back from the defeat in 2019. He won a landslide victory just over a year ago and Keir and the government are focusing on the changes the public voted for," Ms Reeves said.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well we've seen this film a few times before. When Keir ran for the leadership

00:07people said that Labour couldn't come back from the catastrophic defeat at the

00:122019 election. Then people said you know he couldn't overturn that huge

00:18conservative majority. He won a landslide victory just over a year ago and Keir

00:25and the whole government are focusing on the change that the country voted for

00:29including putting the money into communities like this one in Woodside.

00:34Real change making a difference to people's lives.

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