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Conservative Home10 Aug 2026

Kiran Fothergill: The biggest cost of living isn’t your weekly shop. It’s tax

At the next election, for the good of our nation and to finally alleviate the ‘cost of living crisis’, the Conservative Party should stand on a credible plan to change direction on public spending. We need to inspire a future where we have lower taxes. The post Kiran Fothergill: The biggest cost of living isn’t your weekly shop. It’s tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

MoJ Advised Exempting Early Releases Based on Length of Sentences, Not Offence Type

Burnham’s Downing Street is in no good mood with officials from the MoJ over exemptions in the early release scheme. It’s falling apart… Guido understands there is fury at Ministry of Justice officials, who have been accused of incompetence for coming up with changing capacity numbers in the prison estate. They are concerned that the…

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

PM urged not to change scheme to stop PC Andrew Harper killers’ early release

Manslaughter exemption would mean more releases would be needed within 18 months, Prison Service officials say What could Andy Burnham do to block early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers? Andy Burnham has been warned that changing the terms of the prisoners’ early release scheme so PC Andrew Harper’s killers are kept behind bars would force another spate of early releases before the next general election. Prison Service officials have told No 10 that adding an exemption so that those convi

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Sky News Politics10 Aug 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-andy-burnham-labour-kemi-badenoch-tories-nigel-farage-reform-12593360?postid=12204310#liveblog-body'>'Not possible' to block early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers, No 10 says</a>

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Record 230 people cross Channel to UK as smugglers turn to ‘mega-dinghies’

Crossing in larger vessel highlights changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coast UK politics live – latest updates Europe live – latest updates A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday. It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities. Contin

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Thames Water faces row over £1m payment to finance chief

Campaign group says firm is ‘taking the mickey’ by paying fee and Andy Burnham should nationalise it Business live – latest updates Thames Water has paid its chief financial officer, Steve Buck, a £1m signing fee despite intense scrutiny of Britain’s biggest water company’s finances as it tries to avoid being taken into public control. The utility revealed that it made the payment last month, in a letter sent last week by Adrian Montague, its chair, to MPs on the environment, food and rural af

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Labour says Farage has ‘no serious answers’ to prisons crisis – UK politics live

Reform says it will free up space in jails in England and Wales by rapidly deporting all foreign offenders Good morning. Andy Burnham has said Middlemarch is his favourite novel, but he may not remember George Eliot’s line about the genial businessman Mr Vincy who “blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister”. Burnham only took over in No 10 three weeks ago today. But already he is learning that Eliot had a point about the constraints of office. As PM, B

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

Burnham Adviser Refuses to Join No10 Because He Fears Wealth Tax

The Times reports that Jim O’Neill, one of the economic advisers brought on by Team Burnham to calm the markets during the Makerfield by-election, is refusing to join No10 partly because he fears it will impose a wealth tax. Doesn’t fill you with confidence, does it? O’Neill is a former economist for Goldman Sachs and…

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Express Politics10 Aug 2026

Politics LIVE: Nigel Farage to make bombshell prisons announcement

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is explaining how he will stop early releases

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Conservative Home10 Aug 2026

Our Survey: Badenoch backed on candidates and the party not running in Clacton

80 per cent of Conservative members think it's right to hold new candidates to supporting the party policy on net-zero and the ECHR, and 73.4 per cent backed the decision not field a candidate in the upcoming Clacton by-election. The post Our Survey: Badenoch backed on candidates and the party not running in Clacton appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Revisited: Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza – podcast

In July, Andy Burnham told the Guardian’s political editor, Pippa Crerar, that Labour ‘didn’t get it right’ on Gaza. He apologised for the party’s slow response in calling for a ceasefire, but stopped short of describing what was happening on the ground as genocide. This is an edited version of Pippa’s conversation with colleague Kiran Stacey. The original episode was published on 9 July You can read Pippa Crerar’s exclusive with Andy Burnham here. You can read Anna Isaac’s investigation into Ni

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The Guardian Politics9 Aug 2026

‘I was on my honeymoon!’: Hamish Falconer’s surprise call-up to Burnham’s cabinet

New EU negotiator, who previously helped free Taliban hostages, thought it was safe to book holiday during recess When Hamish Falconer left his career as a Foreign Office diplomat for the hostile environment of a Labour party selection process, one of his last acts was a negotiation to free six hostages from the Taliban. When he won the key marginal seat of Lincoln in the 2024 general election, he did not expect to be back in those offices on King Charles Street quite so quickly – he was appoint

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