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Guido Fawkes22 Jul 2026

Burnham Chalks Up Two U-Turns in Two Days as PM

The Downing Street operation is already mopping up after its overenthusiastic Prime Minister. On two counts… During a “huddle” with reporters on Monday, Andy Burnham told hacks that he was interested in raising the personal allowance, which has been frozen. He has stated his intention the weekend before and claimed it came up the whole…

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The Guardian Politics22 Jul 2026

Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2

Measure backed by £454m of funding, with £400m coming from switching investment in international climate finance to loans Single bus fares across England will be capped at £2 from January, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, has announced. The nationwide cap is currently set at £3 until the end of March 2027 although some areas – including London and Greater Manchester, where Burnham set a £2 limit as mayor – have lower top rates for single tickets. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics22 Jul 2026

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems New analysis produced exclusively for the Guardian reveals how different voting systems would return wildly different seat totals in the UK parliament based on current polling. While the current first past the post (FPTP) system could leave Reform UK just 30 seats short of a majority based on recent polls, the modelling shows how proportional systems would be likely to giv

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The Guardian Politics21 Jul 2026

Big, brave Nige shows face in public again with aimless speech to a few mega-fans | John Crace

Reform leader’s recycled moanathon included digs at Kemi, the media, immigrants and new PM. But no questions, of course Is it safe? Is it safe? For the past couple of months, Nigel Farage has been like Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man, wondering if he can come out of hiding. Tucked away in one of his five homes, living on handouts from benefactors and hoping the coast is clear. Free from troublesome reporters who insist on asking awkward questions about where his money comes from and what it’s f

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BBC Politics21 Jul 2026

VAT to be cut from household electricity bills in October

Homes will save around £45 a year through the cut announced on Andy Burnham's first full day as prime minister.

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The Guardian Politics21 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham shakes up Whitehall with new government department

Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, led by Louise Haigh, will oversee both No 10 in London and northern equivalent • Andy Burnham’s first Labour cabinet: who’s in and who’s out? Andy Burnham has created a powerful new department taking in parts of the Cabinet Office, Treasury and housing ministry to become the “dominant driver of the UK’s economy”. In one of his first acts, Burnham has created the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to be headed up by his ally and enforcer Louise Haigh,

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Express Politics21 Jul 2026

Angela Rayner's return branded a 'slap in the face' to taxpayers

Angela Rayner has been handed back her old housing job just months after being ousted in a stamp duty scandal in what experts branded a slap in the face.

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BBC Politics21 Jul 2026

VAT to be cut from household electricity bills in October

Homes will save around £45 a year through the cut announced on Andy Burnham's first full day as prime minister.

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Express Politics21 Jul 2026

Freeview switch off Lisa Nandy pledges 'support package' as axe considered

MPs have raised concerns over proposed plans to switch off Freeview's terrestrial TV signal, potentially affecting 13.6 million homes across the UK

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The Guardian Politics21 Jul 2026

Why has Labour briefed against Ed Miliband – is it his success and popularity?

Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against net zero agenda as energy secretary “Whenever the Labour party feels a bit sad,” according to one close observer of the current government, speaking some months ago, “they wheel out Ed Miliband to talk about rooftop solar.” It might not have been literally true, but it often felt during Keir Starmer’s premiership as if energy secretary Miliband brought the sun. Unfailingly upbeat, with a simple message that was understan

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Express Politics21 Jul 2026

Politics LIVE: Andy Burnham savaged over two contreversial Cabinet picks

Andy Burnham has made a convicted fraudster his Deputy Prime Minister and appointed a tax dodger as housing secretary in his first cabinet.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Can Andy Burnham’s cabinet fix Britain? – podcast

The new prime minister has promised a ‘circuit breaker’ moment for the country, as he becomes the UK’s seventh leader since 2016. But will he be able to make the changes that are desperately needed? Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at how he will try to do things differently and who will be helping him in the cabinet Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran at politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...

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