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Burnham pledges to prove he won't be the last UK prime minister

Burnham pledges to prove he won't be the last UK prime minister

Andy Burnham told Labour's conference that John Swinney said he would be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom on the day his father Roy died. He said he was not criticising Scotland's First Minister, who he believed did not know, but it left him determined to prove him wrong. Swinney predicted this month that Scots would vote for independence if given a referendum.

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