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Labour's deputy leader, Lucy Powell has backed Andy Burnham's return to the Commons. As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer comes under pressure to resign, she also voiced her support for the Greater Manchester Mayor as a key figure in the Labour Party. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We could have further to fall as a party and we absolutely need to come back together as one team
00:06because we've got to take the fight to Farage.
00:09We are at real risk of Nigel Farage walking up Downing Street in a few years' time and we can't
00:13let that happen.
00:14But we've got to do our politics differently, we've got to end the factionalism, we've got to embrace all the
00:19different traditions of the Labour Party, all the different voices and bring one team back together.
00:25And that means having Andy Burnham as a key player in that team in my view.
00:31He has now expressed since you've been meeting at this conference his view, his desire to come back to Parliament,
00:38there's now a vacancy.
00:40I supported Andy last time he wanted to come back to Parliament and I fully support him wanting to come
00:45back to Parliament again.
00:47And just to be clear, I've got good authority, there's going to be absolutely no attempt to stop people from
00:54doing that again.
00:55So we will have him as the candidate I'm sure.
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