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Andy Burnham's 12-point plan as he takes over as PM including immigration

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    50% Medium Right

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Right

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Welfare Mr Burnham has been monitoring research by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn on the increasing number of young people classified as 'Neets' -- an acronym for 'not in education, employment, or training'.
46% : He believes inheritance tax ought to be replaced with a "national care levy" to finance the system.
43% : Yet the matter is expected to be revisited, with Mr Burnham telling The Times last month: "I am not squeamish about saying that the plan would be to reduce the welfare bill.
43% : In remarks that sent hares running, he conceded that people might be asked to contribute a "little more" in tax.
43% : The former Greater Manchester Mayor has previously shown interest in levying taxes on speculative landlords who leave high street properties persistently vacant, as well as taxing the warehouses of companies such as Amazon.
42% : Mr Milburn has cautioned that the welfare state and health systems serving young people are no longer adequate.
39% : Wealth tax Mr Burnham this week declined to rule out a wealth tax, calling instead for a "greater sense of fairness".
39% : When questioned about a wealth tax during an interview with Gary Lineker for Goalhanger, he said: "I'm not going to rule things out right now.

*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.

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