Mansfield poll rejects Andy Burnham's EU realignment
A GB News report on an independent poll says Mansfield voters want key decisions made in Britain, rejecting Andy Burnham's EU realignment.
How it was covered
- GB News was the only channel found covering it, concentrating on the Mansfield poll and Burnham's EU reset as a broken promise.
- Channel 5, BBC News, BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, ITV and Sky News: not found in tracked broadcasts.
The Full Story
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GB News reported on an independent poll that, it said, showed 'Mansfield rejects its MPs' flirtation with handing power back to Brussels'. The channel said the poll found Mansfield residents believed by overwhelming margins that all key policy areas should be decided in Britain. GB News described the survey as an independent poll with a sample similar to those used for the by-election, where it said they had been accurate.
GB News said the policy areas included regional development, VAT, deporting criminals, employment law, food standards, railway nationalisation, energy provision, procurement, animal welfare and the NHS. It reported that 74% wanted food standards decided in Britain.
The channel said Andy Burnham had launched a 'bloodless coup' against Keir Starmer and had promised a Mansfield test under which every policy decision must work for post-industrial areas. GB News said Burnham wrote in the Times in May that the focus should be domestic issues rather than rerunning arguments about rejoining the EU.
GB News said that since becoming Prime Minister Burnham had reopened the Brexit debate, including the option to rejoin. It quoted him calling for an 'honest and grown-up conversation' about future relations with the EU and broad options put to the public.
On the programme's panel, a contributor said 75% of people in Mansfield wanted decisions on refusing criminals entry to the UK made domestically. Stephen Power argued that Burnham's approach was 'absolutely utterly sensible', while another panel member said Burnham was rubbing out red lines without admitting it.
Key Claims
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| Andy Burnham wrote in the Times in May that the focus should be on domestic issues rather than reopening arguments about rejoining the EU. | |
| GB News reported a poll showing Mansfield residents wanted key policy decisions made in Britain, with food standards at 74% among the areas listed. | |
Channel Perspectives
What each channel focused on, with key quotes.
GB News framed the poll as evidence that Mansfield voters want decisions made in Britain and as a breach of Andy Burnham's own Mansfield test. The programme combined the poll figures with a panel discussion that was sharply critical of EU alignment, while giving some space to Stephen Power's argument that Burnham's approach is economically sensible. It focused on policy areas such as state aid, VAT, food standards and Northern Ireland trade rules.
- “poll shows, Mansfield rejects its MPs' flirtation with handing power back to Brussels”
- “he's trying to rub out the red lines without being honest enough to say he's just breaking them all.”
- “What Andy Burnham is saying is absolutely utterly sensible.”
Who was on air
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