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Burnham says ‘too much time is wasted in those dramas’ when asked about Scottish independence – as it happened

The Guardian Politics · 16 October 2026 at 16:18

Burnham says ‘too much time is wasted in those dramas’ when asked about Scottish independence – as it happened

This blog is now closed Burnham spoke of Ravenscraig, once the pride of Scotland’s steel industry that employed tens of thousands of people before it closed in 1992.

He said: When it closed, it wasn’t just a works that shut, it was a whole community which saw the pillars underneath it just taken awa

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Burnham says ‘too much time is wasted in those dramas’ when asked about Scottish independence – as it happened

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