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Keir Starmer says he took the decision to quit as PM after spending the weekend with his family.
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In an untypically candid interview, the outgoing PM tells the BBC it was "really tough" to accept his political career was over.
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Andy Burnham needs the Treasury to serve devolution, raise living standards and renew the economy. The energy secretary meets that testThere are few things on which this column would agree with George Osborne. Voting to remain in the European Union was one. Backing Labour’s Ed Miliband to be the next chancellor is another.Mr Osborne, whose austerity programme redistributed pain downwards while protecting privilege at the top, had only a week ago on his podcast, Political Currency, dism
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Party had justified plan to hang flags in Nottinghamshire on basis that local businesses would foot £75,000 billA £75,000 scheme by a Reform-led council to hang union flags at sites across the county, which the party said “will not cost the taxpayer a single penny” as it would be sponsored by local businesses, has failed to attract a single sponsor, it has emerged.The plan to attach the flags to brackets on about 180 lamp-posts and other places was agreed in the autumn by Nottinghamshire’s counc
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The newly elected MP for Makerfield is expected to become PM this month and says he will stick to the 2024 Labour manifesto.
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Labour MPs believe a donations cap will be backed by dozens of MPs and likely next prime minister, Andy Burnham.
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Avoiding traditional questions and stilted broadcast clips, incoming PM has evolved his style of media managementHe is due to become prime minister in just over a fortnight as parliament begins its six-week summer break. But at a marquee speech this week, he took precisely zero questions. So is Andy Burnham, as opposition leader Kemi Badenoch claims, dodging scrutiny? His allies say no: he is simply going about it in his own way.The former Greater Manchester mayor is very obviously a different t
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Al Pinkerton says the proposed site for the new Frimley Park hospital is "fundamentally unsuitable".
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The prime minister's spokesperson says the government is exploring "all possible options in this case".
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The "late announcement" extending opening hours to 05:00 on Monday means taking officers away from other duties, the National Police Chiefs' Council says.
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Hollie Ridley has been credited with organising the ground campaign which led Labour to its landslide election win in 2024
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With 1.5m families waiting for social housing and Labour’s building targets already falling short, the challenge is hugeFrom the front garden of the red-brick terrace where she has lived for nearly three decades, Coral McKeown, 50, points to the gleaming new council house she was supposed to move into five years ago.It sits behind heavy metal fences surrounded by building work and an empty construction vehicle. She does not expect it to be ready until next year at the earliest. Continue reading.
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The right wants to paint Manchesterism in terms of north v south – but poverty everywhere is solved by prioritising the public purse over private pocketsWhen the “king of the north” called London “the world’s greatest capital city” this week, it didn’t reassure those who fear that Andy Burnham represents that old national grievance, the north-south divide. The right warned southerners that he was coming to tax their extravagant properties until the pips squeaked.The idea that London is reviled a
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The former deputy first minister says she was advised to lie about her opinions on same-sex marriage.
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The Makerfield MP also rejects attacks on his economic stance, insisting he would not be "indisciplined" on finances.
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Makerfield MP said he would consider reducing business rates as part of a package that could also include freeze on private rentsAndy Burnham promised to ease the cost of living if he becomes prime minister in his first interview since returning to parliament.The Makerfield MP told LBC that if he became prime minister later this month, as expected, he would look at reducing business rates for some high street businesses, bringing down water and energy costs by de-privatising companies and making
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Having ordered a public inquiry, it is right that ministers are taking its ideas about managing risks seriouslyIt is two years this month since Axel Rudakubana burst into a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, murdered Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe, and injured 10 other people. The government’s pledge to implement all 67 recommendations from the public inquiry signals its determination to protect the public in future. Its chair, Sir Adrian Fulford, s
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Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far-right and racist con
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Lisa Nandy says her department is also leaving Elon Musk's platform, which she claims "isn't healthy for our democracy".
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Just before being kicked out of No 10, the PM is dreaming of lifting the World Cup for a nation – and political immortalityThe dream lives on. With 15 minutes left against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta, England were in danger of going out of the World Cup. The defeat would have been one of the more humiliating exits from an international tournament the team had experienced. But with heads going down and nerves shattered, up stepped Harry Kane with a couple of goals. The second, sub