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No 10 defends flight to Caribbean going via Manchester to pick up Burnham

THE GUARDIAN — WORLD · Peter Walker Senior political correspondent ·

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Critics decry ‘Air Miles Andy’ after plane that took off from Stansted diverted to collect prime minister and wife A government-chartered plane taking Andy Burnham to a Commonwealth summit in the Caribbean made a stop-off in Manchester to collect him Downing Street has said. The decision, which will have been more financially and environmentally costly than if the prime minister had travelled to…

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