Andy Burnham was in a furious mood this morning when he toured the broadcast studios. It was hardly surprising: most people would grow rather ratty if CCHQ wasn’t just coming after you but briefing that it is coming after you. He angrily told listeners that he did not ‘accept this attack on the integrity of the last Government’. He listed all the actions of the Labour government that he believed showed he and colleagues were not in the wrong. That list included:
- ‘It was the last government that introduced independent regulation into the NHS’.
- ‘I brought in Robert Francis to investigate what happened’ at Stafford Hospital. Burnham said he overruled civil service advice when he engaged Francis.
- Burnham responded to mortality data for Basildon in late 2009.
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