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The new prime minister enters Number 10 in a flurry of activity - but he is still facing calls for a snap election.
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Bondholders are suddenly showing flexibility after 18 wasted months at ailing utility companyThames Water investors offer ‘golden share’ in bid to head off nationalisationWhat a difference a credible political threat of special administration at Thames Water can make. Suddenly, the bondholders are volunteering all manner of new ideas in their attempt to take over the ailing utility. Would you like the state to have a “golden share”, Mr Burnham? Here is a menu of “supervisory structures” that may
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The government has announced it will cut VAT on domestic electricity to zero but Britons still pay more for power than many other European nations.
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Reform leader’s recycled moanathon included digs at Kemi, the media, immigrants and new PM. But no questions, of courseIs it safe? Is it safe? For the past couple of months, Nigel Farage has been like Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man wondering if he can come out of hiding. Tucked away in one of his five homes, living on handouts from benefactors and hoping the coast is clear. Free from troublesome reporters who insist on asking awkward questions about where his money comes from and what it’s for
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Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safeAndy Burnham has promised to bring “four decades of neoliberalism” to an end. The first serious test of that pledge was always going to be the cabinet he appointed. The red flags are impossible to ignore.Ending neoliberalism would mean putting privatised services back into public hands, unleashing public investment and using the power of the state to reshape the economy. Ye
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Northern MPs make up a big part of Andy Burnham's new cabinet - but how many are there?
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BBC Political Correspondent Damien Grammaticas explains Andy Burnham's plan to cut VAT and its link to the scrapped digital ID scheme.
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The Reform UK leader says the public want a vote on the new PM's 10-year plan.
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Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, led by Louise Haigh, will oversee both No 10 in London and northern equivalent• Andy Burnham’s first Labour cabinet: who’s in and who’s out?Andy Burnham has created a powerful new department taking in parts of the Cabinet Office, Treasury and housing ministry to become the “dominant driver of the UK’s economy”.In one of his first acts, Burnham has created the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to be headed up by his ally and enforcer Louise Haigh, whi
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Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, is charged with her murder and appeared in court.
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New prime minister is implementing immediate tax cut to help ease cost of living pressures for British householdsAndy Burnham to cut VAT on electricity bills as first cost of living moveHousehold electricity bills for people in Great Britain will not attract VAT for six months, under the first of a series of cost of living measures announced by the new prime minister, Andy Burnham. Continue reading...
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After becoming PM on Monday, Burnham appointed John Healey as chancellor, Ed Miliband as foreign secretary and Wes Streeting as defence secretary
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she welcomed the removal of VAT on energy bills, but questioned how Andy Burnham would fund it.
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Andy Burnham holds his first cabinet meeting as prime minister
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Andy Burnham is holding his first cabinet meeting as prime minister
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The potential contender to replace Keir Starmer is now back in the cabinet under Andy Burnham.
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London-based civil willing to move north have been told they will be offered relocation packages, the BBC understands.
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European leaders have made positive noises about the new UK PM, but he is likely to face the same restrictions as StarmerUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham is unknown in Brussels, but that will soon change. In his schedule for the autumn is an EU-UK summit that may underscore the same dilemmas that have confronted previous British prime ministers in the relationship with Europe.EU leaders were quick to offer congratulations to Britain’s prime minister, the seventh since the 2016 Brexi
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Andy Burnham has replaced Sir Keir Starmer as UK prime minister, after becoming Labour leader last week.