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The BBC's political editor Chris Mason speaks to Ed Miliband about his new appointment.
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Outside Downing Street, Britain’s new prime minister struck the right notes. Now he and his cabinet need to be braveA 1970s adage attributed to the former Tory chancellor Reginald Maudling maintained that Britain was essentially a Conservative country that sometimes voted Labour. That was always a questionable assertion, given the defining postwar role of Labour in shaping a fairer social settlement. But the trauma of successive election victories by Margaret Thatcher from 1979 onwards meant tha
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The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says the new PM's popularity matters to No 10.
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The former defence secretary is seen as a safe pair of hands - and is now in charge of the government's finances.
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He looks the part, with a rise as impressive as his speeches, but is that enough? You cannot know if someone is up to the job until they have to do itOnly vaulting ambition takes anyone to No 10, but Andy Burnham’s ambition reaches phenomenal heights. Can he really make the biggest changes in 40 years? Can he build a new economy? The new prime minister lashes himself to the mast of those mighty aspirations, but adds in something even riskier – an end to rough sleeping, ordered immediately. That’
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Andy Burnham has become the sixth UK prime minister in a decade after a transfer of power from his predecessor Keir Starmer.In his first address outside Downing Street, he said his arrival in power would be a ‘circuit breaker’ moment for Britain and that his government would bring the ‘biggest changes in 40 years’. Lucy Hough speaks to political correspondent Alexandra Topping – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
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What PM Andy Burnham has done previously on rough sleeping?
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Andy Burnham has become the UK's prime minister after being appointed by the King at Buckingham Palace.
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The new prime minister met his Dutch-born wife, known as Frankie, at Cambridge University in 1989.
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Rapid turnover of prime ministers continues as UK gets another promise that, this time, things will be differentUK politics live – latest updatesNot another one. It would be no surprise to find out that overseas tour companies now include package holiday visits to watch the UK’s rapid turnover of prime ministers. “Come to London to watch the motorcade nearly run over a group of fancy dress soldiers playing a Bon Jovi medley just outside Buckingham Palace.” Two years is a long time in the lifetim
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The new Labour leader has formally taken office and set out his priorities for power in No 10.
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The new prime minister has begun to set out key policies - starting with a vow to end rough sleeping.
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The PM has a long history relating to various sports.
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BBC Journalist Lucy Woodham explains why we have a new PM but we haven't had a general election.
The Guardian Politics
From ‘circuit breaker for Britain’ to 10-year plan, new prime minister sets out his stallUK politics live – latest updatesIt clocked in at just over five minutes, and contained several themes and phrases familiar to Andy Burnham watchers. And yet there was quite a lot to the new prime minister’s first speech in Downing Street. Here are some highlights. Continue reading...
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The Labour leader made a similar pledge as Greater Manchester mayor, although he failed to achieve this.
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Andy Burnham pledges change at home, but no wavering in the UK's commitment to Ukraine.
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New Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants life to be more affordable, but how could he do it?
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Andy Burnham has said ending rough sleeping in the UK is one of his priorities.