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Six highlights from Andy Burnham’s first Downing Street speech

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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Burnham makes ending rough sleeping his first policy pledge as prime minister

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No 10 North and backing Ukraine - New PM on his plans

Andy Burnham pledges change at home, but no wavering in the UK's commitment to Ukraine.

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Burnham promises help with your money. How could it affect you?

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Burnham pressed on ambition to end rough sleeping

Andy Burnham has said ending rough sleeping in the UK is one of his priorities.

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Mason: What image does Burnham want to project?

Mason: What image does Burnham want to project?

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Watch: Starmer resigns, Burnham becomes PM... the day in 98 seconds

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'Make politics work', Burnham says in first speech as PM

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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'I've had to lay off most of my staff due to roadworks'

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'A circuit-breaker moment' - Watch Andy Burnham's first speech as PM in full

Andy Burnham spoke outside Downing Street after he replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister and leader of the Labour party.

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Watch: Sir Keir Starmer's last speech as prime minister in full

Starmer spoke in front of an applauding crowd on Downing Street.

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Prisons minister Lord Timpson quits government

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From hundreds to thousands: How India's 'cockroach' protest movement has grown

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Andy Burnham to become new prime minister and lay out ‘10-year plan’ for the UK in No 10 speech - UK politics live

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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Counties to be split into three new unitary councils

Oxfordshire - and a part of Berkshire - will be split into three new unitary authorities.

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Badenoch: Burnham's plans are 'airy-fairy stuff'

Kemi Badenoch was asked about Andy Burnham as prime minister during Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

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What do people in Burnham-on-Sea think of the likely new PM?

Andy Burnham has pledged to undertake a summer tour across the UK during the early weeks of his premiership.

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Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik

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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Andy Burnham says he will go ‘faster’ than Starmer. Why is that so hard?

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Retired UK civil servants failed by pension outsourcing, government says

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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