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Mason: What image does Burnham want to project?
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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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Burnham said his generation of politicians will need to "raise our game" and rise to the challenges in front of them.
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Traders have expressed fears about a drop in trade with some even having to let some workers go.
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Andy Burnham spoke outside Downing Street after he replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister and leader of the Labour party.
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Starmer spoke in front of an applauding crowd on Downing Street.
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The businessman said it was an "honour" to serve in the post, but the BBC understands he feels he has achieved all he can in the role.
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BBC's Azadeh Moshiri reports as thousands attempt to march to India's parliament in support of the Cockroach Janta Party's demand for education reforms.
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Keir Starmer will give his final speech from Downing Street before Burnham arrives and is appointed as new PMGood morning. Today we are getting a new PM. It is the sixth time this has happened in just over a decade (Theresa May replaced David Cameron on 13 July 2016), and so in some respects there is nothing very new or surprising about this. Yet the process has been unusual. In the past, when parties in power have replaced a PM, generally they have opted for someone popular with their own MPs,
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Oxfordshire - and a part of Berkshire - will be split into three new unitary authorities.
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Kemi Badenoch was asked about Andy Burnham as prime minister during Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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Andy Burnham has pledged to undertake a summer tour across the UK during the early weeks of his premiership.
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A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything elseI start this column already resigned to the tune out, to the glaze over, the click away. This is not to say that I do not have faith in you, dear reader, to keep reading and caring. But I am aware, and this is central to the problem, that it is now normal, when it comes to a certain minority in this country, to speak of them as if they were some
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Is the machinery of state jammed, or is the reason for the slow pace of change more personal than institutional?Eighteen months into the 24 it turned out he would last in No 10, Keir Starmer was a man in a hurry. The biggest frustration with the job, he told MPs, concerned “speed and the ability to get things done”. The underlying problem, he thought, was that every time something had gone wrong in the past, “successive governments have put in place another procedure or another body or another c
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Chaos of Capita-run scheme has left some people waiting up to a year for payments and in financial hardshipRetired civil servants have been failed by the decision to outsource their pension scheme, the government has admitted, and the maladministration meant some were left waiting up to a year for payments.Multiple members of the civil service pension scheme, run by the private company Capita since December, have come forward to say they are unable to afford rent and have been forced to use food
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Determined to hit the ground running, the former mayor hopes to maintain the leadership style he adopted in Manchester.
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The Labour leader will say he is "acutely conscious" of the UK's high turnover of prime ministers, as he becomes the seventh in 10 years on Monday.
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The BBC understands creditors would would pursue payment in full of the outstanding debts, in the multi-billions of pounds.
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Tensions between his aims are already there, including disputes over key appointments such as chancellorAndy Burnham’s vision for cleaning up Westminster politics is a utopian one: ending the dominance of the whipping system, Whitehall power hoarding and the “insidious briefing culture” of the bubble.In his first speech on becoming Labour leader, he warned his party it “won’t beat Britain’s new right if we are consumed by infighting and pulling in different directions”. Continue reading...
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