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The Latest Breaking News from Andy Burnham

Celtic leaders doubt Burnham’s devolution drive will go beyond England’s borders

Would-be prime minister has made basic missteps in pitches to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Burnham economics adviser calls for tax system overhaul

Lord O'Neill was one of several economists to sign a letter advising the government to streamline UK taxes

The Independent UK

Starmer likely to face criticism from US and Nato allies over Britain's defence spending plans at Ankara summit

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading into this week's Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey on under rising pressure, with senior US officials signalling dissatisfaction over the UK's defence spending plans and warning that alliance members falling behind must accelerate their commitments.

The Times of India

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What are Andy Burnham’s policies on benefits reform? Everything we know

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The Independent UK

Burnham will push for benefits reform and knows it’s ‘absolutely necessary’, welfare tsar says

Former health secretary Alan Milburn says he and the presumptive prime minister have already ‘discussed privately’ the issue of welfare reform

The Independent UK

Starmer and Burnham at odds over football fans drinking in stands

The PM-in-waiting said a ban on football fans drinking alcohol in the stands is ‘wrong’

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham Considers Changing Sentencing Law To Stop Early Release of Child Sex Offenders

Andy Burnham is exploring legal options to exclude child sex offenders from early release under new sentencing reforms, amid concerns over prison capacity and public safety.

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Starmer faces likely row at Nato summit after US rebuke on defence spending

US ambassador to Nato has called for all allies who are ‘lagging behind’ to step up immediately

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs fear infected blood scandal is ‘another fine mess’ left for Burnham to clear up

Andy Burnham, who has long campaigned for victims of the scandal, has criticised how the compensation scheme will operate

The Independent UK

Labour MSP struggles to defend Burnham’s indyref2 rejection in car crash interview

A LABOUR MSP has struggled to defend Andy Burnham’s decision to reject a second Scottish independence referendum if he becomes prime minister…

The National (Scotland)

Half of affordable new homes in rural England could be at risk if planning rules relaxed, analysis shows

Exclusive: National Housing Federation says ending quotas for developers could cost 32,000 homes over 10 years

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Who are the people trying to protect our right to protest?

In today’s newsletter: One year on from the proscription of Palestine Action, an elderly retired priest steadied herself on the conviction that protest had become a moral duty, while she waited for the police to move in

The Guardian - UK

Burnham’s £880 million plan to save high street shops

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The Independent UK

Trump barely knows who Britain’s next prime minister is. How will Burnham handle him?

Little-known abroad, Andy Burnham has a chance to define a new era of US-UK relations. Should he seek to charm or bargain with the bully in the White House – or treat him ‘like a poorly informed constituent’?

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The EU that the UK left no longer exists

Andy Burnham’s rise has stoked talk of the terms for a future British return – but this is the wrong question, says political risk analyst Mujtaba Rahman

The Guardian - UK

Minister calls on Burnham to show path to 3.5% target on UK defence spending

Dan Jarvis, who wants to stay on as defence secretary, says he is confident PM-in-waiting values national security

Evening Standard

Burnham’s business rates plan to boost high street ‘could cost around £880m’

Forecasts by global tax firm Ryan suggest proposals could lift more than 140,000 additional small premises out of paying business rates.

The Independent UK

Burnham’s tax plan to save Britain’s high streets ‘could cost £880m a year’

The policy could exempt more than 140,000 additional small high street firms from paying business rates altogether

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The Guardian - UK

AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interference

The Guardian - UK

Problems with Andy Burnham’s drive for devolution

Letters: Daughne Taylor and John Marriott respond to the prospective new prime minister’s 10-year proposal to cede more power to regions and communities

The Independent UK

Starmer addresses Burnham relationship in first interview since resignation

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The Independent UK

Burnham says ban on football fans drinking in stands is ‘wrong’

The prime minister-in-waiting said, ‘I think we need to look at that’

The Independent UK

If Farage quits, Reform are nothing without him

ANALYSIS: As Nigel Farage plans to address his future at an emergency press conference, political editor David Maddox looks at mounting speculation that he could quit or ‘take a break’ as the scandals about his personal finances pile up

The Independent UK

Burnham says law banning football fans from drinking in stands is ‘wrong’

Everton fan Andy Burnham questioned why the law should apply to football games but not a rugby league match in the same stadium.

Euronews

JD Vance says 'beautiful' Britain has been 'failed by its leadership'

While he called Britain "amazing," Vance said there appeared to him to be something "very broken about British politics".

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