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This year’s Conservative party conference contains a number of examples of a party having some genuinely original thoughts, rather than just running...
Andy Burnham gave Labour activists fire in their bellies at the Labour party conference this week, showing them emotion and a sense of purpose that...
Normally when politicians really cry, it’s because they’re on their way out of a big job, rather than just getting settled. Today, Andy Burnham...
What “common ground” could Andy Burnham possibly have with Donald Trump? As well as the two men having markedly different politics, the US...
The meltdown in the criminal justice system has been particularly egregious for victims of rape and sexual violence. They have been forced to wait...
Would renaming the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero really make it easier for the government to persuade the public of the benefits of net...
It’s unlikely the families of the babies Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering at the Countess of Chester Hospital will get any closure from...
Farewell, then, Monty Don, the Gardener’s World presenter who didn’t seem to like gardeners very much. By gardener, I don’t really mean the kind...
Andy Burnham repeatedly claims that he can fund defence using savings from the welfare budget – just not the ‘crude cuts’ that the Tories want...
There are a lot of things we know about NHS maternity: that it’s in crisis, that there are a lot of reports confirming that it is in crisis, that...
Kemi Badenoch attacked Andy Burnham on defence spending again for the second Prime Minister’s Questions where the pair faced each other. This time,...
Farewell, then, Monty Don, the Gardener’s World presenter who didn’t seem to like gardeners very much. By gardener, I don’t really mean the kind...
A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for a Labour frontbencher to use a statement about the kind of unrest seen in Dover and Portsmouth...
John Healey has tried so far as chancellor to suggest that he is part of a ‘continuity’ Labour government – largely because he hopes that this...
Dan Jukes, an aide to the Reform leader, and the party’s head of policy, James Orr, have both stood down after Channel 4 broadcast the...
Can Andy Burnham really delay setting out how he will raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 2030 until next year’s spending review? The...
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...
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