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Welcome to the State Split, the political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times.
I'm Stephen Swinford, the political editor of The Times.
I'm Patrick McGuire, chief commentator for The Times.
I'm Laura Spirit, deputy political editor of The Sunday Times.
This week, we are going to talk about the early release scheme
where Andy Burnham is effectively taking a stand in the first major test of his will as Prime Minister.
He wants to block the release of the killers of PC Andrew Harper.
And he's going to do everything he can despite officials telling him you can't do it.
He says I'm doing it.