Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
18%
4 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Ahead of the gathering in Merseyside, Peter Kyle – who served as Sir Keir Starmer’s business secretary – warned that Mr Burnham was not doing enough to boost economic growth.
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Burnham → serve → growth
Communities Secretary Angela Rayner meanwhile used a pre-conference interview to hit out at plans by her Cabinet colleague Shabana Mahmood to lengthen foreign social care workers’ path to claiming permanent settlement.
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Rayner → use → settlement
The Prime Minister is due to give a speech at the conference on Tuesday, which he hopes will set out the guiding purpose for the rest of Labour’s term in power.
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he → give → power
Speaking to the BBC, former minister Mr Kyle suggested the Government needed to make more short-term decisions to boost growth, like slowing the rollout of new workers’ rights.
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Government → speak → rights
“We might need to look and have honest conversations with unions about how we sequence some of the rights going forward in order to make sure that we get growth into the economy in the shorter term,” he said.
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he → need → term
Mr Kyle insisted he was not making a criticism of the Government, but “pointing to the potential that we have as a country and as a Government”.
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we → insist → Government
The senior Labour figure, who also served as science secretary, added: “If the destination means prosperity, it means freedom for people to do new things, and it means security for people and families, then why wouldn’t we put our foot down and get there quicker?”
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we → serve → foot
Elsewhere in an interview with the Times, Ms Rayner hit out at plans to make it harder for migrant workers to claim settled status in the UK, warning it would “change the goalposts”.
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it → hit → goalposts
The reforms will increase the timeline for permanent residence from five years to 15 years for foreign social care workers, and will apply to all those who have come to the UK since 2021.
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who → increase → 2021
The Communities Secretary, who was a vocal opponent of the migration proposals when she sat on the Labour backbenches under Sir Keir, stood by her previous description of the package as “un-British”.
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she → sit → package
The plans are also opposed by other figures across Labour, and could be the source of a row at the party conference.
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plans → oppose → conference
Asked whether she had raised the issue with her colleague Ms Mahmood, the Home Secretary, Ms Rayner told the Times: “I think Shabana knows.
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Shabana → ask → Times
I have not changed my view on that.”
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I → change → that
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She told the programme: “I think the the reason, frankly, that we had a change of leadership at the start of this year is because we all felt that people need to feel the change in their lives that we promised in 2024 much more quickly.”
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we → read → 2024
Mr Burnham is “impatient for change, and he thinks big about the sort of change that the country needs,” she added.
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she → think → that
Ms Nandy also said she did not think the planned changes to migration law were “un-British”, adding: “I don’t think that we’ve ever had an automatic right to citizenship for most people who come to the UK from overseas.”
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who → say → UK
The Home Secretary is trying to “balance the respect and gratitude that we all feel to people who come to this country, who make a contribution” with the need for an immigration system the public can have confidence in, Ms Nandy added.
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Nandy → try → confidence
Ahead of the conference, Mr Burnham used used a marathon broadcast round to “knock dead” a rumour he is considering an early general election.
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he → use → election
Writing in this year’s conference guide, Mr Burnham meanwhile described attending the conference as his party’s leader as “a huge honour”.
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Burnham → write → honour
He added: “I joined our party when I was 15 for the same reason so many of you did – to help change our communities and to build a better, fairer country.
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many → add → country
“For too long, politics has not been working for people across Britain.
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politics → work → Britain
We need to do better – and we will.”
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we → need → ?
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