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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says that a week into his premiership, Andy Burnham is making "irresponsible" and "unfunded" commitments "without any idea how to pay for them". "We've identified commitments and ideas adding up to £96 billion just in the last seven days. That amounts to a tax increase of over £4000 per household". Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Yeah, I'm deeply concerned about Andy Burnham's unfunded commitments.
00:03We've identified commitments and ideas adding up to £96 billion just in the last seven days.
00:10That amounts to a tax increase of over £4,000 per household,
00:14or if he borrows it, it will certainly cause a meltdown in the financial markets.
00:19Andy Burnham is being extremely irresponsible by throwing around all these spending commitments
00:24without any idea how to pay for them.
00:27It will either mean higher taxes for British families,
00:31or it will mean more borrowing, which will cause a meltdown in financial markets.
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