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The Tory leader says the new prime minister needs to "lift his sights" to fix broader issues with the UK.
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Investigation has begun after row started over posters that displayed Nigel Farage's face.
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Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC she leads a "new party full of new people" as ex-MP is rejected as a candidate.
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Some hospitality firms will get a 20% discount from next April, saving an estimated £1,100.
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PC Harper, 28, was killed in 2019 when he was dragged by a car down a country road as three teenagers fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Berkshire.
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Former footballer Gary Lineker and producer Brian Eno write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".
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Selection of economist formerly at helm of green thinktank marks continuation of decarbonising Miliband eraIn her first 48 hours as energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh was left in no doubt about the thorny policy decision at the top of her in-tray. Protesters from Fossil Free London met her outside her new offices dressed as firefighters holding placards reading: “We’re already putting out fires, don’t start new ones.”The MP for Peckham – a radical economist who is outspoken about the climate cr
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Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics‘I am acutely conscious,” said Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street on Monday, “that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street.” It was good to hear him say it because, beneath all the cabinet gossip and rune-reading, there is a feeling of terror about the immediate future a
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The new prime minister plans to work with influencers and social media creators to get his message out.
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The Scottish Labour leader will step down and be granted a peerage so he can take up a seat in the House of Lords.
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It will follow a private funeral for family and close friends, which will be held in the coming weeks.
The Guardian Politics
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide?There’s a slightly mean question I often ask British people with an interest in the living world: can you name the environment secretary? I don’t intend to show them up: it’s not them I’m testing. I watch the brows knit, a finger go up, the mouth open and close. “It’s, you know, the one who … no, they went, didn’t they? That other one …” It’s been
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The opposition leader wants to pull the UK out of the ECHR, wrecking treaties from the Good Friday agreement to the Gibraltar dealSitting in Brussels, or one of the EU’s 27 chancelleries, one could be forgiven for tuning out the latest psychodramas in Britain’s Conservative party. After all, the country has a new Labour prime minister who is a pro-European keen to build upon the “reset” begun by Keir Starmer. Who cares what a party in opposition thinks about anything when it is still reeling fro
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The FCDO’s annual report was quietly released just as Starmer was leaving office – it continues a long-term shift from supporting countries most in need to seeking something in returnSomewhere on the new British prime minister’s desk sits a document. It was quietly published last week, in the dying hours of his predecessor’s government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s annual report cements how the UK aid budget will be allocated until 2029.It was released at the moment of leas
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Sarwar will leave the Scottish Parliament and his leader role, and take up a seat in the House of Lords.
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Carns quit following the resignation of John Healey as defence secretary in a row over military funding.
The Guardian Politics
New PM’s conversational tone is markedly different to his predecessor’s, but carries risk of sowing confusionBefore he became Britain’s prime minister, Andy Burnham promised to “do politics differently”. Just three days into his time in Downing Street, that approach is already being put to the test.In the last two days, the prime minister has been accused of performing U-turns over raising the income tax threshold, raising taxes for higher earners and freezing private sector rents. Continue read
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The MP for Bolsover has spoken about how she was groomed and raped as a teenager.
The Guardian Politics
When it comes to driving an agenda from No 10, the prime minister seems to have learned important lessons from his predecessor’s failureBefore entering Downing Street, Andy Burnham cited the overcentralisation of power as a cause of Britain’s social and economic malaise. In his first week, the new prime minister has signalled his intent to bolster No 10 as an organ of executive power. The apparent contradiction – fortifying the centre to pursue an agenda of decentralisation – arises from a perve
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Scottish Labour’s rivals decry ‘chancer’ Anas Sarwar for resigning to join Andy Burnham’s government
The new prime minister plans to make Sarwar, the first Labour figure to call for Keir Starmer’s resignation, a peerScottish Labour’s rivals in Holyrood have slammed Anas Sarwar’s shock decision to resign as leader to sit in Andy Burnham’s new government, calling him a “chancer” and accusing him of lying to voters.The prime minister plans to make Sarwar, who was the first senior Labour figure to call for Starmer to resign, a peer and give him a ministerial post at the Department for Business, Inn