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Chris Mason: Starmer's defence plan leaves crunching trade‑offs for Burnham to confront
The BBC's political editor Chris Mason reflects on the fallout from the Defence Investment Plan.
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Express Politics1 Jul 2026
PMQs LIVE: Keir Starmer faces brutal Commons grilling as he faces defence backlash
Sir Keir Starmer faces Prime Minister's Questions at midday - follow live.
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Conservative Home1 Jul 2026
The end of Starmer drama and the soap opera of coronation street – but who IS our next PM?
We are entitled to more than the carefully crafted cheeky chap with his dress down bonhomie but real, solid, answers to politically serious questions about Britain's future and his plans for shaping that. The post The end of Starmer drama and the soap opera of coronation street – but who IS our next PM? appeared first on Conservative Home.
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The Guardian Politics1 Jul 2026
When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you can dig for yourself than climate-science denial: heat-stress denial. Across the billionaire press last week, columnists and leader writers minimised the health impacts of the heatwave, particularly in schools. Expect more of this next w
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BBC Politics1 Jul 2026
Chris Mason: Starmer's defence plan leaves crunching trade‑offs for Burnham to confront
The BBC's political editor Chris Mason reflects on the fallout from the Defence Investment Plan.
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Express Politics1 Jul 2026
Rail project championed by Andy Burnham fails to learn expensive HS2 lessons
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee also warned that lessons from the ballooning cost of HS2 have not been learned.
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The Guardian Politics30 Jun 2026
Northern Rail Project risks repeating costly HS2 failures, MPs warn
The £45bn scheme to link cities across north of England with new or upgraded lines has no convincing or properly costed plan, committee says Building Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) risks repeating the failures of HS2 with “no convincing plan” to deliver it within a £45bn budget, an influential committee of MPs has warned. The government announced in January its commitment and funding for the NPR project to connect cities across the north, consisting of new or upgraded lines between Liverpool, Ma
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BBC Politics30 Jun 2026
Half of government should be female, Labour women tell Burnham
Female MPs urge Burnham to ensure Labour lead by example on equality should he become prime minister.
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BBC Politics30 Jun 2026
Half of government should be female, Labour women tell Burnham
Female MPs urge Burnham to ensure Labour lead by example on equality should he become prime minister.
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The Guardian Politics30 Jun 2026
The Guardian view on the defence investment plan: the UK needs security, not dependency on a wayward US | Editorial
Sir Keir Starmer cuts civilian investment while deepening reliance on American power. That doesn’t feel like national renewal Since Brexit, Daphne du Maurier’s final novel, Rule Britannia, has been seen as a prescient warning about the UK cutting itself adrift from Europe. After joining and then leaving the EU’s predecessor, the Common Market, in a referendum, Du Maurier imagined the UK facing such economic instability that its prime minister submits to a US takeover. Britain is occupied by US f
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The Guardian Politics30 Jun 2026
Andy Burnham says he will end culture of briefing against female ministers
PM hopeful tells meeting of women’s parliamentary Labour party that any staff who undermine female members of his team will be sacked UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham has said he will to end the culture of briefing against female ministers, promising Labour MPs he will sack any staff who undermine women in his team. Speaking at the meeting of the women’s parliamentary Labour party in Westminster, Burnham also strongly criticised descriptions of him as “the first female Labour PM”
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The Guardian Politics30 Jun 2026
Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes
Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025 UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage received £270,000 from a gold marketer for which he is a brand ambassador, his single biggest payment as an MP. The Reform leader has been criticised in the past over his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea for Direct Bullion that people should buy physical gold and put it in their pension pots. Continue reading...
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