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Badenoch says PM must rule out tax rises to fund social care reform
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BBC Politics26 Jul 2026
Badenoch says PM must rule out tax rises to fund social care reform
In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
Economy
Express Politics26 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham considering huge tax change with new '0.48% charge'
It has been reported that the government is considering new options to replace council tax and stamp duty.
Economy
The Guardian Politics26 Jul 2026
‘Burnham bounce’ risks deflating unless focus remains on struggling households | Richard Partington
UK’s inequalities expose splits in consumer economy, with spending suffering and a decline in savings among the poorest A “Burnham bounce”, sunshine and a strong World Cup run for the men’s England football team. Could this be a turnaround moment for Britain’s struggling consumer economy or yet another false start for the UK’s spluttering growth engine? Last week the data company GfK credited Andy Burnham’s return to Westminster politics for lifting UK consumer confidence at its fastest monthly
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The Guardian Politics26 Jul 2026
Is Burnham’s Oxbridge-heavy cabinet a sign of social mobility or lack of progress on class?
PM’s team can be seen as backward step even though in some ways it is more diverse. Yet its makeup points to wider access to power Race, school, gender: the makeup of Andy Burnham’s cabinet – in charts Like 20 British prime ministers before him, Andy Burnham’s new cabinet minister for AI, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After graduating from the country’s most elite private school, Narayan attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied – what else? – PPE (politics, philosophy and economics
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Express Politics26 Jul 2026
Green party councillor slammed for 'taxpayer-funded heroin van' to help drug addicts
Green Bristol councillor Cara Lavan spent months pressing council officials to develop a mobile unit that would allow addicts to inject illegal drugs.
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Express Politics26 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham £12,570 tax threshold update as told 'pensioner only' higher rate possible
Jonathan Cribb of the Institute for Fiscal Studies told BBC 2 decisions possible - including increase exclusively for pensioners
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Express Politics26 Jul 2026
'Our benefits bill will bankrupt Britain' - Robert Jenrick issues warning to Burnham
Reform's Treasury Spokesperson warns the UK's benefits bill is pushing the country to 'breaking point'.
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Express Politics26 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham issued warning over bombshell 'death tax'
Fears are mounting that the estates of hundreds of thousands of pensioners who would not have faced inheritance tax will be hit with new levy
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Express Politics25 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham plots huge tax change - not an income tax hike
The new PM has made decentralising power and funding away from Westminster a major pillar of his agenda.
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Express Politics25 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham's already proven he's not up to the job
Andy Burnham does not understand these simple economic realities and has also shown in his first week that for him the numbers do not add up.
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The Guardian Politics25 Jul 2026
Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman
If the prime minister wants to make the system fairer he will need to upset the professional classes with a land value tax The professional classes act like a Praetorian Guard for the super-rich. Having acquired some of the trappings of being rich, they defend the privileges of wealth – land, property and pensions. They do this as if they – company managers, lawyers, doctors, judges, senior civil servants, architects and chartered this and thats – were the main beneficiaries. Continue reading..
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