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Andy Burnham is meeting his cabinet in Downing Street, ahead of his first speech to the House of Commons as prime minister.
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The Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales says victims are desperate for more detail on how the early release scheme will affect them.
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The justice secretary says the early release of prisoners is part of a bigger plan to reform the prison service.
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The government's plans to release some prisoners early comes under scrutiny from the professional bodies that would have to implement the scheme.
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This may well be the point when his honeymoon period as PM ends and the hard work begins, Damian Grammaticas writes.
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The government says £110m has been fast-tracked from existing budgets to speed up the building of new cells.
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Labour leader faces tough decisions on issues such as North Sea drilling, electoral reform and defence spendingAfter a relatively cheery summer in which he announced a range of eye-catching cost of living policies, Andy Burnham may find his return to parliament this week to be a rude awakening.While the new prime minister has enjoyed some success in the polls, he is faced with many of the same problems that stymied Keir Starmer and has some difficult and unpopular choices to make. Continue readi
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Andrew Griffith will take over the role as part of Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet reshuffle.
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The BBC spoke to Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, who criticised the prime minister's response.
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The warning comes after the prime minister said some prisoners serving indefinite sentences could be freed to increase prison capacity.
The Guardian Politics
The MoD grossly overspends then claims poverty. It’s high time it was treated as just one part of a progressive governmentNowhere was the confidence of the prime minister, Andy Burnham, shown as clearly as in his appointment of chancellor. There were weeks of speculation that this appointment was a choice between the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, and the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, with their contrasting political economies.It has been a hallmark of Burnham’s politics that he and his team
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More than 20 organisations have written a joint letter to John Swinney urging him to scrap his plan for a legal cap on some food and drink prices.
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Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’Andy Burnham should call a cross-party meeting to discuss the UK’s response to worsening extreme weather, including the forthcoming ‘super El Niño’, the Liberal Democrats have said.The prime minister chaired a Cobra emergency meeting on the drought earlier this month but there has been little from the government on the wider threats posed by five successive heatwaves since May and expected global is
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Tory leader expected to install Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary as Cleverly quits to run for London mayorKemi Badenoch is to reshuffle her shadow cabinet on Monday, and is expected to install Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary to replace Priti Patel.Tugendhat, a former security minister, was a leadership candidate who had previously declined to join the shadow cabinet. Badenoch is also expected to replace James Cleverly, the shadow communities secretary, who has resigned from th
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Sir James Cleverly resigned from the shadow cabinet on Saturday to run for mayor of London.
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Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures.
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A survey by the party suggested almost half of teachers reported considering quitting the classroom in the next five years.
The Guardian Politics
Offences including manslaughter have been excluded from changes to sentencing rules amid an overcrowding crisisGrooming gang perpetrators and killers including those responsible for PC Andrew Harper’s death will be blocked from early prison release under changes announced by Andy Burnham after a backlash over the scope of the scheme.Here is a primer on how the crisis unfolded and what the upshot of Burnham’s decision could be. Continue reading...
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Labour has promised a ‘fundamental rewiring’ of power. But some areas are years into their devolution journey while others scramble to get startedApart from the joyous hyperactivity that comes with suddenly making it to No 10, there are good reasons why Andy Burnham seems to be a prime minister in a hurry. If he decides that his first term is going to run to its maximum length, he has three years, which is a maddening time-frame: too long for him to just tinker here and there, set out his long-t
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The prime minister says he will keep hundreds more criminals behind bars but doing so requires complex changes.