The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

Defence Secretary faces questions on £4.7bn funding gap left to Andy Burnham

The presumptive prime minister will have to identify an extra tranche of funding for defence in his first budget.

Evening Standard · Jun 30

My pitch to London: good growth to every postcode, hope in every heart

Everyone can feel the country is not where it should be. People feel it in their bills, their rent, their high streets, their transport, and at the end of every month when there is less and less left over.

Evening Standard · Jun 30

Keir Starmer says £15bn defence investment plan will prepare UK for war

The long-awaited investment package is partly funded by cuts to road and energy schemes.

Evening Standard · Jun 30

Burnham will stand or fall on his plans for youth employment: he must put the next generation first

Labour has to match the success of its New Deal for young people in the late 1990s, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

Andy Burnham vows to set up No 10 North as ‘nerve centre of rewired Britain’

UK’s likely next PM says Westminster system is ‘broken’ and he will oversee a devolution of power and resources

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29

Everything we know about Andy Burnham's Number 10 North

ANDY Burnham has pledged to create a “Number 10 North” to act as “the nerve centre of a rewired Britain”, charged with making power flow to…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 29

Andy Burnham: I'll give Sadiq Khan more power on homes and education to keep London 'world's greatest capital'

Prime Minister-in-waiting Burnham is vowing to boost Britain’s economy with the ‘biggest devolution of power in modern times’

Evening Standard · Jun 29

Burnham plans to ‘rewire’ British state to improve people’s lives across UK

Andy Burnham said his proposals would shift power away from Whitehall as part of a ’10-year-mission’ to drive up living standards.

Evening Standard · Jun 29

Andy Burnham makes vague Scottish devolution pledge in England-focused speech

ANDY Burnham has made a vague pledge to "extend devolution" in Scotland during a speech which largely focused on England.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 29

Andy Burnham promises greater devolution to free country ‘stuck in a rut’

The would-be prime minister said Westminster has not been working for people as he promised to shift power out of Whitehall.

Evening Standard · Jun 29