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The BBC's Annita McVeigh talks us through some key appointments as Andy Burnham takes office.
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US President Donald Trump and new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a brief phone call today following his appointment.
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Hilary Benn replaced by a former Anglican priest as part of a Cabinet reshuffle by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham.
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He is the son of ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock and former MEP Glenys Kinnock.
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The new prime minister pledged to make announcements this week to "give people some breathing space".
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An in-depth look at which Labour MPs have been appointed to cabinet roles by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
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Every tricky decision and trade off is being watched by the country and the markets at the same time
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John Healey says he has worked with Andy Burnham over many years, and shares his values and vision.
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The new prime minister has promised a ‘circuit breaker’ moment for the country, as he becomes the UK’s seventh leader since 2016. But will he be able to make the changes that are desperately needed? Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at how he will try to do things differently and who will be helping him in the cabinet Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran at politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...
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The Sheffield MP's return to the cabinet comes after she emerged as one of the PM's key political allies.
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The former energy secretary and Labour veteran was touted as a potential chancellor, but will take over from Yvette Cooper as foreign secretary.
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Choice of John Healey for chancellor shocks insiders after weeks of fierce lobbying on behalf of party big hittersUK politics live – latest updatesFor weeks, as ministers jostled, lobbied and positioned themselves for big jobs in an Andy Burnham government, the incoming prime minister remained sphinxlike. He told an interviewer on Monday that he had a black box containing his ministerial picks and major policy announcements, adding that even as he prepared to enter Downing Street: “The black box
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The BBC's political editor Chris Mason speaks to Ed Miliband about his new appointment.
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Outside Downing Street, Britain’s new prime minister struck the right notes. Now he and his cabinet need to be braveA 1970s adage attributed to the former Tory chancellor Reginald Maudling maintained that Britain was essentially a Conservative country that sometimes voted Labour. That was always a questionable assertion, given the defining postwar role of Labour in shaping a fairer social settlement. But the trauma of successive election victories by Margaret Thatcher from 1979 onwards meant tha
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The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says the new PM's popularity matters to No 10.
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The former defence secretary is seen as a safe pair of hands - and is now in charge of the government's finances.
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He looks the part, with a rise as impressive as his speeches, but is that enough? You cannot know if someone is up to the job until they have to do itOnly vaulting ambition takes anyone to No 10, but Andy Burnham’s ambition reaches phenomenal heights. Can he really make the biggest changes in 40 years? Can he build a new economy? The new prime minister lashes himself to the mast of those mighty aspirations, but adds in something even riskier – an end to rough sleeping, ordered immediately. That’
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Andy Burnham has become the sixth UK prime minister in a decade after a transfer of power from his predecessor Keir Starmer.In his first address outside Downing Street, he said his arrival in power would be a ‘circuit breaker’ moment for Britain and that his government would bring the ‘biggest changes in 40 years’. Lucy Hough speaks to political correspondent Alexandra Topping – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
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What PM Andy Burnham has done previously on rough sleeping?