The Independent Article RatingAndy Burnham criticises Labour for excluding northern mayors from conference
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| "But I would also go further and say a universal basic income." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Mr Burnham also used his appearance to spell out the skeleton of an alternative national policy platform, calling for a universal basic income, guaranteed housing, and more affordable public transport in the regions." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Under a universal basic income workers would get a guaranteed payment no matter whether they were in or out of work." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Asked if the final number would be smaller, Pelosi replied: Yesu2009.u2009.u2009.u2009" | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "But several progressive lawmakers in the House are withholding support for the spending package as they seek to preserve Biden's bigger $3.5tn budget plan, which would make historic investments in America's social safety net." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "In a letter to colleagues at the weekend, Pelosi said it would be a week of intensity and called on all House Democrats to attend crunch talks on Monday evening." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "We will bring the bill to the floor [on Monday] for consideration, Pelosi told ABC News." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives had been expected to vote on Monday on Biden's $1.2tn infrastructure bill, which passed the US Senate earlier this year with bipartisan support." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling three times during Donald Trump's presidency." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "But in comments that are likely to stoke further discontent among progressives, Pelosi acknowledged on Sunday that it was all but certain the $3.5tn budget plan would be scaled back to pass both the House and Senate." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Democrats maintain an eight-vote majority in the House, and control the 50-50 Senate by the narrowest of margins, with vice-president Kamala Harris able to cast a tiebreaking vote." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The divisions have piled pressure on Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, who must balance the interests of the competing factions within her party if she is to help the president deliver on his campaign promises." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Pelosi insisted on Sunday that the infrastructure bill would pass this week, but conceded that the vote was unlikely to take place on Monday." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Pat Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate banking committee, told CNN on Sunday that he would certainly be voting no this week to funding the government and raising the debt limit, and argued that markets were unfazed by the Capitol Hill stalemate." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "What is going to happen is after Republicans vote no, [Senate majority leader] Chuck Schumeru2009.u2009.u2009.u2009" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Her comments were echoed by Pramila Jayapal, the Democratic congresswoman from Washington state who chairs the House progressive caucus and for weeks demanded assurances that the $3.5tn budget will not be watered down in the Senate by moderates such as West Virginia's Joe Manchin and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Her comments were echoed by Pramila Jayapal, the Democratic congresswoman from Washington state who chairs the House progressive caucus and for weeks demanded assurances that the $3.5tn budget will not be watered down in the Senate by moderates such as West Virginia's Joe Manchin and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Democrats are gearing up for a week of intensity on Capitol Hill as they scramble to iron out their differences and salvage Joe Biden's legislative agenda while staving off a government shutdown." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
61% : But I would also go further and say a universal basic income."56% : Mr Burnham also used his appearance to spell out the skeleton of an alternative national policy platform, calling for a universal basic income, guaranteed housing, and more affordable public transport in the regions.
54% : Under a universal basic income workers would get a guaranteed payment no matter whether they were in or out of work.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.