🚨BURNHAM’S “MAN OF THE PEOPLE” LONDON FLAT WAS HELPED BY £16,000 IN TAXPAYER CASH Andy Burnham bought a £215,000 Kennington flat in 2005 after negotiating to add most of an £18,200 Dolphin Square tenancy buy-out to his parliamentary second-home allowance, then claimed £16,644 in expenses covering stamp duty, legal fees and a new kitchen. Contemporary reports show he later rented the property out (now estimated around double its purchase price) while claiming roughly £17,000 a year from taxpayers for a different London flat. The self-styled voice of ordinary people, who has criticised landlords and housing profiteering, still owns an asset acquired and improved with public money under rules he and others later condemned.