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28:19Now PlayingAndy Burnham's first week as prime minister has been decisive, optimistic and proactive. Labour has overtaken Reform UK in the polls for the first time in more than a year. Now Burnham is taking on education and social care reform: knotty political questions with many landmines. We look at the pitfalls that lie ahead.
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Zack Polanski's Green Party is losing support. And as Reform and the Conservatives fight to be the main party of the right, how does the new Labour government change things for Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch?
Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator, The Times
Gabriel Pogrund, Insight editor, The Sunday Times
Executive producer: Molly Guinness
Producer: Euan Dawtrey
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