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Conservatives have called for all images of suspects to be run through facial recognition software.
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The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.
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Connection with voters on screen only pays off when it’s matched with bold policies in the real world – as it has for Zohran Mamdani in New YorkAndy Burnham is having a good time. I can’t remember the last time a prime minister (or indeed any high-profile British politician) actually looked as though they were enjoying what they were doing. I saw a clip the other day in which Burnham remembered arguing with his dad about the point of an English degree, quoted poetry and discussed the importance
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The prime minister says enforcement is increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.
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Sharing income tax with England’s regional mayors could tackle inequality but many councils are ill-equipped for an enlarged roleOn the road to Downing Street, Andy Burnham promised to transfer power from Westminster to every postcode in the country. After his first two weeks in office, the size and complexity of this project are becoming clearer.With a date set for the autumn budget, thework of filling in the detail that will underpin his devolution plans begins – starting with his proposal to
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The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
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Bev Craig succeeds Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester's mayor after winning Thursday's by-election.
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Voters on the left are more fragmented than ever – but they will pull together behind a convincing cross-party messageThe author is director of the cross-party campaign organisation CompassThe results of the election for a new mayor to succeed Andy Burnham in Greater Manchester show progressives standing at the threshold of a new era. But only if they work together.New mayor Bev Craig was elected using the supplementary vote which uses voters’ second preference if no one wins more than half the
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The Reform UK leader is keeping a low profile and his approval ratings have sunk since Burnham took office. What’s the outlook for the Clacton byelection?This time last year, Nigel Farage was making the political weather. His freewheeling weekly press conferences filled a sparse news agenda, setting out eye-catching policies on areas such as crime and immigration. This year? Less so.The Reform UK leader is expected to hold a press conference in London next week. If so, it would be just his third
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The governing party's poll ratings have improved but they're only just ahead of Reform
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Shift from Westminster risks weakening scrutiny as regional titles battle hostility, big tech and ‘news deserts’Greater support for local media is needed to hold mayors and councils to account under Andy Burnham’s plans for devolution, which would involve a massive transfer of power into local government, publishers have said.A range of figures involved with local news broadly welcomed new plans unveiled by the prime minister, but said that monetising content, barriers erected by populist politi
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Private White VC’s James Eden says PM should not be criticised for wearing a high-quality British-made brandIt has not yet been two weeks since James Eden, the founder of the Manchester men’s clothier Private White VC, saw one of his best-known customers move in to No 10 Downing Street.In any sane world the man who makes the prime minister’s jackets would be popping open the champagne. His garments have been seen by millions of people and described by journalists all over the world writing about
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With a prime minister raised in a tradition that emphasises our mutual dependency, we may finally have a leader who can address the anomie gripping our countryLike Andy Burnham, I was once an enthusiastic altar boy, although I don’t recall competing to be at the front with the communion plate as the prime minister apparently did. Much of my motivation had little to do with piety. The tips received for serving at weddings were often very generous and I got on well with Father Jerome, an engagingl
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Labour's Bev Craig secures nearly double the number of votes won by Reform UK's Sian Astley.
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The BBC's David Wallace Lockhart asks if Scotland's largest city should have its own elected mayor.
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Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concernsAndy Burnham was told he could face the first revolt of his premiership as Labour MPs and climate experts condemned his apparent support for renewed drilling for oil and gas.As the UK suffers through drought, fires and heatwaves, the prime minister gave the strongest indication yet on Friday he was minded to allow for new drilling. His comments came just hours before the UN secretary-gener
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Devolution should finance transport, skills and industry, not become a rightwing contest to promise the largest tax giveawayThat England is among the rich world’s most centralised countries underpins Andy Burnham’s critique of the economic history of the past 40 years. Only post-communist Europe deindustrialised as rapidly as Yorkshire and the Midlands did in the 1980s. Centralisation did not close every factory or pit, but left regions without the powers, finance or institutions to cushion the
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In an increasingly dangerous world, our European neighbours are finding safety in numbers – but Britain is on the outside. The new PM’s task is to change thatThere is an orange cloud in the sky. I’m not referring to the wildfires ravaging parts of Europe and East Anglia, though they are connected. I mean the looming pall from across the Atlantic that threatens to spoil the sunny start to the premiership of Andy Burnham – and whose name is Donald Trump.Burnham’s first 10 days or so in office have
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