Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Ed Miliband

Shabana Mahmood’s history on tax and welfare sparks tensions with Andy Burnham allies

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood is now expected to be unveiled as chancellor, but criticisms she made behind the scenes of Rachel Reeves’s tax policies have already sparked tensions with Burnham’s allies on the left

The Independent UK

Burnham to scrap Starmer’s flagship digital ID scheme and focus on bills

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Burnham plots Ed Miliband Foreign Office shake-up as he readies policy blitz for first day as PM

Exclusive: Ed Miliband now widely expected to get the foreign secretary job as Labour sources tell The Independent that Team Burnham has been discussing major reform of the FCDO and a ‘roadmap’ back to spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on overseas aid

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Voices: What the choice of Shabana Mahmood tells us about the new prime minister

COMMENT: If Andy Burnham is willing to have such a strong chancellor, this can only be a good thing, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK

‘He knows what he thinks’: how ready is Andy Burnham to become PM?

A hasty handover from Starmer meant his successor has not had much time to prepare for office yet his team is quietly confident

The Guardian - UK

In The Room | Inside Andy Burnham’s No 10 takeover

Andy Burnham has finally been crowned Labour Party leader. Attention turns now to his top team, with home secretary Shabana Mahmood hotly tipped to be named chancellor. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting continue to cast a shadow over Burnham’s picks. On Monday, after formalities with the King, Burnham will…

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham is the Labour leader – third time lucky for the UK’s prime minister-in-waiting

Andy Burnham has won on his third attempt to be Labour’s leader. In a wide-ranging speech to Labour MPs at a special conference in London, a jubilant Burnham pledged to “bring back hope” and promised to be a leader for all nations of the UK. But it has taken him…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Bizarre choice’: business and Labour puzzle over Shabana Mahmood as future chancellor

The home secretary, favourite to take over at No 11, has minimal economic credentials and many MPs would prefer Ed Miliband

The Guardian - UK

Burnham must back oil and gas drilling if he has any common sense – Badenoch

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch spoke out on a visit to Aberdeen on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Burnham’s ‘black box’ plans for cabinet send Westminster into hysteria

Few know who will get top jobs when new PM enters No 10 and the vacuum of information has its downsides

The Guardian - UK

Who will be Andy Burnham's Chancellor?

New favourite emerges to replace Rachel Reeves in Number 11

Evening Standard

Burnham too influenced by ‘vested interests’ to offer change, Polanski says

Exclusive: Green party launches pushback against idea that next PM will have more left-leaning agenda than Starmer

The Guardian - UK

How green is Andy Burnham? Britain’s next PM faces tough climate decisions

Heatwaves, high energy prices, calls for reindustrialisation and North Sea drilling are all high on the to-do list

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham needs both Miliband brothers in his cabinet – but there is only room for one

ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox examines whether Andy Burnham will bring back one – or both – of the Miliband brothers, or whether history could repeat itself with one losing out on a top job at the expense of the other

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Burnham must avoid ‘summer of speculation’ on tax, warns CBI chief

Rain Newton-Smith calls for a new generation of public-private partnerships to fund major projects

Evening Standard

Who will be in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet?

Ed Miliband has been touted as a possible chancellor.

International Business Times UK

Why Markets Are Cheering Andy Burnham's Chancellor Pick: Economists Explain

Andy Burnham's anticipated choice of Shabana Mahmood as chancellor has boosted UK markets, with government bonds and sterling rising. Her selection is seen as a stabilising force for Labour's economic policy.

The Guardian - UK

Shabana Mahmood expected to be named Andy Burnham’s chancellor

The home secretary is the frontrunner for the role ahead of ‘risky’ Ed Miliband, according to senior Labour figures

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham ‘makes decision over who will take over as Chancellor’

IN FULL

The Guardian - UK

At his final PMQs, Starmer soaked up the love from all sides – and even some tenderness from Kemi

It wasn’t his performances on Wednesday lunchtimes that did for the ultimate mid-table PM – it was all the other stuff

The Independent UK

Shabana Mahmood expected to be named as Burnham’s chancellor

The home secretary appears to have won the job running the UK’s economy at the expense of energy secretary Ed Miliband

The National (Scotland)

Andy Burnham's frontrunner for chancellor unveiled as key figure 'blocked'

Andy Burnham's top pick for chancellor has been unveiled, after reports suggested one of the most likely candidates for the role has been…

The Independent UK

Four out of ten Britons still don’t know who Andy Burnham is, poll shows

Incoming prime minister mistaken for Richard Osman, Mel Gibson and Jeff Bezos as shocking poll lays bare the uphill challenge he faces

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry latest: Damning report slams ‘inherently biased’ VIP lane contracts and £10bn wasted on PPE

Vast sums of taxpayer cash were wasted and favourable treatment was given to referrals by MPs, peers and ministers, report finds

The Guardian - UK

North Sea oil industry urges Burnham to approve new drilling in UK waters

Lobby appeals to prospective PM’s reindustrialisation agenda as it pushes for Rosebank and Jackdaw approval

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Parliamentary Labour Party

20 stories

Rosebank

15 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.