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Andy Burnham had a reasonable first outing at Prime Minister’s Questions today. He didn’t flounder, but he didn’t make it look easy, either. He...
What is Andy Burnham really going to do that’s different from his predecessor? When he made his first address to MPs as prime minister yesterday,...
Victims will start receiving letters from today informing them that they will be affected by the early release of prisoners, after Andy Burnham...
Is Andy Burnham running a ‘circuit breaker’ government from the one led by Keir Starmer, or is it a ‘continuity’ administration? Chancellor...
We are starting to see a pattern in the announcements that Andy Burnham has made over his first few weeks as Prime Minister. He makes a promise...
How hard is this autumn going to be? This week’s economic figures suggest pretty hard: job losses, higher-than-expected borrowing, and higher...
How realistic is Andy Burnham’s plan to make No. 10 North responsible for the government’s ‘growth mission’? The Prime Minister’s argument...
The warning from the Children’s Commissioner that the Prevent programme can’t help ‘a cohort of children intoxicated by extremism’ might...
Are mental health centres in libraries, banks and high street locations really going to make much of a difference? Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has...
Andy Burnham is apparently enjoying his first taste of unpopularity as prime minister, in the form of the furore over the early release of domestic...
Given she has been the most consistent figure in British politics in the past 20 years, Louise Casey is worth listening to far more than any of the...
Does Andy Burnham really believe that cross-party consensus is going to resolve the decades-long stalemate on the funding of adult social care? Of...
Andy Burnham knows that ‘fixing’ social care will drain political capital away from him faster than a teenager emptying their parents’ bank...
Does Andy Burnham’s claim this week that his government is a “second chance at a first impression” make any sense? What the new Prime Minister...
To the surprise of very few in Scottish politics, bar apparently himself, Anas Sarwar is stepping down as leader of the Scottish Labour party to take...
Andy Burnham told his Cabinet this morning that they need to give people a ‘sense that help is coming’. He was largely focused on the cost of...
What does Yvette Cooper as Health Secretary mean for the NHS? It’s a question no one thought to ask before today, which underlines why her...
Keir Starmer has been quite an irritable – and irritating at times – performer in the Commons as prime minister. His sessions with Kemi Badenoch...
It’s difficult for an outgoing Prime Minister to mess up their valedictory PMQs: there is always more goodwill in the Chamber on those occasions...
Now that he’s officially the Prime Minister in waiting, Andy Burnham is trying to work out how to stop Labour MPs from turning against him in the...
By the end of this year, Britain will have had (at least) seven prime ministers in the past decade – and more than 700 recommendations on how to...
Keir Starmer came to PMQs wearing that look of post-resignation relief that we’ve grown all too used to seeing on a prime minister’s face over the...
Now that Labour MPs seem confident that Andy Burnham is the only possible answer to whatever question their party has been asking over the past few...
Keir Starmer looked visibly emotional as he walked up to the lectern in Downing Street this morning. The Prime Minister then held it together for the...
There was a telling moment in Andy Burnham’s second bid to be Labour leader where he was put firmly in place by his own wife. The pair had sat down...
Claire Coutinho emerged as the Tory frontbencher taking deputy prime minister’s questions today, with the shadow energy secretary focusing on oil...
Voters in Makerfield haven’t even gone to the polling stations, but already the Labour leadership contest is well into a detailed exposition of what...
‘Corridor care’ should be an oxymoron, but is instead such a feature of the NHS now that nearly 3,000 people a day found themselves being treated...
Prime Minister’s Questions today was ostensibly about the Defence Investment Plan – or its absence. But Kemi Badenoch was really using the DIP in...
Keir Starmer is using this morning’s cabinet meeting to underline the message he has been sending to more junior ministers over the past few days:...
Where could the government possibly find the money to fund its defence investment plan (DIP)? That question has been the major factor behind the...
Andy Burnham finally confirmed last night that he is indeed standing for the Labour leadership – just in case anyone was confused about what the...
We have now reached the stage of political debate around Henry Nowak’s murder where politicians are talking more about tone policing than they are...
Kemi Badenoch clearly decided that it would be difficult to call for calm around the Henry Nowak case, and then to spend Prime Minister’s Questions...
The latest tranche of files about Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington contains some big surprises. Who would have...
It’s refreshing that social care has become a topic over which the putative Labour leadership contenders are prepared to scrap, given how neglected...
As well as making noises about wealth taxes that sound suspiciously similar to the kind of thing Andy Burnham would normally say, Wes Streeting has...
What is Wes Streeting up to? For years – decades, in fact – the answer to that question was always, “He wants to be prime minister”. The...
Keir Starmer probably found it vaguely comforting that today’s Prime Minister’s Questions at least gave the impression that he is still making...
Like the rest of the King’s Speech, Keir Starmer’s address on the government’s legislative agenda had been prepared long before the turmoil in...
All three of the resignation letters from ministers who have quit government in the past couple of hours will be painful for Keir Starmer, but Jess...
Keir Starmer’s big survival speech could nevler be big enough to save him as Prime Minister. Whether he ends up getting the push now or later in the...
The final Prime Minister’s Questions of a parliamentary session is often quite a demob-happy affair with a pantomime atmosphere. Today’s, though,...
For something that’s apparently only a ‘desperate political stunt’, Keir Starmer is taking the looming vote on whether to refer him to the...
It will come as no surprise that Keir Starmer appears to have heard a very different evidence session from Sir Olly Robbins to the one everyone else...
Sir Olly Robbins has only been giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee for 20 minutes, and already he has made clear that he is not going to...
What a funny pair Lee Anderson and Zarah Sultana are: so vehemently opposed to one another’s politics and yet so similar in the way they operate,...
Keir Starmer gave six responses to questions about Lord Robertson’s defence spending comments today, none of which addressed the criticism properly....
Is Prime Minister’s Questions past it? We frequently ask this question in Westminster when the Wednesday lunchtime ding-dong between the two party...
George Robertson’s critique of the government’s reluctance to commit to proper defence spending is deeply politically inconvenient for Keir...
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