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All of Andy Burnham's U-turns explained as he shifts stance on migrant benefits

The Greater Manchester mayor’s latest change of stance is his fifth U-turn since he was announced as Labour’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer defends approach to AI and energy in response to Tony Blair’s essay

The Prime Minister penned an almost 3,000-word-long post published to Substack on Thursday, responding to Sir Tony Blair’s essay.

Evening Standard

Burnham positions himself as the reformed Blairite – but will that work in Makerfield?

NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox looks at the contradictory nature of Andy Burnham’s response to Tony Blair

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Keir Starmer defends policy choices in rebuttal of Blair’s criticism

PM says predecessor misunderstands government’s successes and ‘very different’ situation compared with 1997

The Guardian - UK

Life for Britons is much harder than it used to be – and Blair has ignored that, says Burnham

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

The Independent UK

Blair is wrong about my government, Starmer says, as he hits back over Labour criticism

Prime minister ‘doesn’t agree with much’ of Sir Tony Blair’s scathing 5,700-word essay

The Independent UK

Starmer says he is ‘vindicated’ by change in rebuff to Blair criticism

The former Labour prime minister launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir and his Government earlier this week.

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Burnham steps back from past calls to end immigration benefits restriction

Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate understood to have changed stance on no recourse to public funds policy

The Guardian - UK

Reform now main party on right of British politics, poll finds

More in Common said Reform has largely overtaken the Conservatives.

Evening Standard

Why the Green party must run in every seat – including Makerfield – and ignore Labour demands to stand aside

Only the Greens can actually counter Reform UK – Labour is out of touch, says the freelance journalist Ben Smoke

The Guardian - UK

Milburn backs Blair’s criticism of policies affecting entry-level jobs

The author of a review of youth unemployment suggested the current Government should rethink an uplift in the minimum wage.

Evening Standard

Burnham and Streeting hit back at Blair's attack on Labour government

Sir Tony Blair urged Labour to embrace the “radical centre” in a highly critical 5,700 word essay published on Wednesday

Evening Standard

‘Stuck in his glory days’: Blunkett and others cast doubt on Blair’s advice to Labour party

Ex-PM perceived as out of touch and having credibility problem even if parts of analysis are seen as hard to dispute

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Tony Blair’s advice for Labour: policymaking like it’s 1999 will not lead to a revival

Editorial: A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now

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Evening Standard

Andy Burnham accuses Tony Blair of failing to understand modern politics

The ex-Labour leader called for his party to champion the ‘radical centre’, warning it is ‘playing with fire’ over the UK’s future.

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham hits back at Blair’s claims Labour is ‘playing with fire’ over leftist policies

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The Guardian - UK

Streeting and Burnham accuse Blair of failing to confront inequality in Labour criticism

Potential leadership candidates join senior figures in saying the former PM’s essay does not address today’s challenges

The Independent UK

Reform backs Makerfield candidate amid row over social media posts

Robert Kenyon is reported to have said Russia was ‘within their rights’ to invade Crimea and questioned the seriousness of Covid-19.

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The Independent UK

Burnham hits back at ‘out of touch’ Blair and blames centrists like him for rise of Farage

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

The Conversation

Is the tenure of a leader becoming ‘nasty, brutish and short’?

When Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham announced that they intend to challenge Keir Starmer as prime minister, it felt like the start of a depressingly familiar loop. A leader who had made many great-sounding promises failed to deliver and lost the trust of the public. The public demands he quit,…

The Independent UK

Blair demands welfare cuts and end of ‘unsustainable’ pension triple lock

The former prime has warned that there needs to be an ‘honest conversation’ over the way forward for the party before there is a change of prime minister

Evening Standard

Sir Tony Blair says he wants to see Burnham win Makerfield and return as MP

The Greater Manchester Mayor is widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership if he wins the by-election.

The Guardian - UK

Labour must put policy first, politics second, Tony Blair says

Former PM urges party to take a step back and ‘analyse the world’ amid speculation over Keir Starmer’s leadership

The Independent UK

Russia ‘within their rights’ to take Crimea, Reform’s Makerfield candidate said as he compared it to Falklands

It is the latest social media comment from Robert Kenyon to resurface during the by-election campaign

The Guardian - UK

New Mandelson revelations cast doubt on claim vetting decision was borderline, Thornberry says – as it happened

‘It becomes quite clear why UKSV saw him as a subject of concern who shouldn’t be granted clearance,’ Thornberry tells the Guardian

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