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Andy Burnham says “my view won’t be changing” on the subject of Scotland leaving the United Kingdom in a second referendum, arguing the UK union makes the country “stronger”. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00You say you want to move beyond the constitutional question.
00:04Does that mean you are categorically ruling out a second referendum on independence
00:09during the duration of your Premiership?
00:13Well, I'll come back to what I said at Liverpool.
00:16You heard my views.
00:19I am somebody who believes in all forms of unions, trade unions, definitely.
00:26And I think unions of countries are better because you can face a challenging world
00:32in a more confident and stronger way, in my view, when you collaborate and you work together.
00:38That is my view.
00:40I communicated it to the First Secretary very clearly, and he has a different view.
00:46But let's accept there's a different view there and then work on together what we can agree on.
00:54So, yeah, my view won't be changing, but let's now move forward where we can make some progress.

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