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Supported80% confidence
“British public opinion is I think it's changed since the referendum”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says British public opinion on the EU has changed since the 2016 referendum.
A YouGov poll around the tenth anniversary of the referendum found 58% saying Britain was wrong to leave the EU and 29% saying it was right, against a 52% Leave vote in 2016.
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Supported85% confidence
“the right long-term relationship for Britain with our nearest neighbor our largest market.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says the EU is Britain's largest market.
The EU is the UK's largest trading partner as a bloc: in 2025 it took £384bn of UK exports (41%) and supplied £472bn of imports (50%), per the Commons Library. The US is the largest single-country export market.
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Supported85% confidence
“I'm the seventh prime minister in that decade.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says he is the seventh UK prime minister in the decade since the 2016 EU referendum.
Counting from the June 2016 referendum, the prime ministers have been Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer and Burnham, so Burnham is the seventh. Brussels Signal also describes him as the seventh prime minister in a decade.
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Supported70% confidence
“You have the Lib Dems debating this at their conference.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says the Liberal Democrats debated Britain's relationship with the EU at their 2026 conference.
The Liberal Democrats set out a plan at their autumn 2026 conference to rejoin the EU single market (via EFTA/EEA) and later challenged Burnham to back an amendment requiring negotiations to join it.
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Supported85% confidence
“You have Mark Carney going to Europe and saying is there a relationship that we can have?”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says Canada's prime minister Mark Carney has gone to Europe to seek a closer relationship with the EU.
On 17 September 2026 Mark Carney told the European Parliament that Canada welcomed Ursula von der Leyen's offer of closer ties, including possible associate membership of the EU.
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Supported75% confidence
“I think we have seen growth harmed by Brexit”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says UK economic growth has been harmed by Brexit.
The OBR's working assumption, which it said in 2024 was 'broadly on track', is that the post-Brexit trade deal will cut UK trade intensity by 15% and long-run productivity by 4% compared with staying in the EU. The size of the effect is debated, but official forecasts point to lower growth.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“immigration control because that has been weakened by Brexit.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says Brexit has weakened the UK's control of immigration.
Brexit ended the UK's use of the EU's Dublin system for returning asylum seekers, and no replacement UK-EU returns deal was agreed; the Migration Observatory says this limited returns, though only 263 people were transferred out under Dublin in 2019. But Brexit also gave the UK full control over EU migration, and the record net migration of 906,000 in the year to June 2023 was 86% non-EU, set by UK visa policy, so 'weakened' holds only for asylum returns.
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Supported80% confidence
“the huge investment that has gone in not just to Manchester city but everywhere around the Etihad, the Etihad itself.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners have invested heavily not only in the club but around the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester.
Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners (ADUG) have invested around the Etihad Stadium: a £200m City Football Academy on the Etihad Campus, a £1bn housing partnership with Manchester City Council in east Manchester, and a stadium expansion announced in 2023.
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“I was in a dispute with the Premier League on behalf of this football club where we are”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says he was in a dispute with the Premier League on behalf of Everton, the Liverpool club.
In late 2023, as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham publicly accused the Premier League of 'abuse of process' and 'regulatory malpractice' over Everton's 10-point deduction, and the Premier League wrote to him rejecting the accusation. The interview took place in Liverpool, Everton's home city.
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“They didn't at the time when I took up the fight for Everton.”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says most people did not have sympathy for Everton when he took up the club's fight with the Premier League over its points deduction.
No poll of public sympathy for Everton at the time of the 2023 points deduction was found. The deduction, later cut from 10 to six points on appeal, drew criticism from Everton supporters and politicians and was defended by the Premier League.
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Can't verify60% confidence
“there are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at [RAF Fairford].”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says there are strong indications that Iran played a part in the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford over the weekend of 27 September 2026.
Police were investigating whether the 27 September 2026 RAF Fairford arrests were linked to Iran, but the intelligence behind the government's 'strong indication' was not public, and no one had been charged. Iran's embassy denied any involvement.
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Supported85% confidence
“it remains a live police investigation in terms of [counterterrorism police].”
Claim checkedAndy Burnham says the RAF Fairford incident remains a live counter-terrorism police investigation.
Counter Terrorism Policing said it was leading the investigation into the incident near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on 27 September 2026; the five men arrested were bailed with the investigation continuing.
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