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Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham can't be a people pleaser and Prime Minister – something's got to give

OPINION - JONATHAN SAXTY: Perhaps today we'll discover where our latest PM stands on key UK issues... but I wouldn't hold your breath

Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Politics LIVE: Keir Starmer to make final speech as Andy Burnham becomes PM

Andy Burnham will enter 10 Downing Street today - follow live.

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Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh

If Andy Burnham and Louise Haigh really do think Britain's current problems started because of the Thatcher years, I'm very much afraid he will try to borrow solutions from the past which will not tackle our profound and monumental challenges as a country but make our future a darned sight worse.  The post ‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics20 Jul 2026

Badenoch: Burnham's plans are 'airy-fairy stuff'

Kemi Badenoch was asked about Andy Burnham as prime minister during Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

David Gauke: Getting the blame game wrong – you purge if you want to but it’s lazy who they are purging

Look at the drivers of the decline of the Conservatives’ popularity: there was always likely to be a moment when Johnson’s lack of integrity was likely to cause a political crisis; there was always likely to be a moment when Liz Truss’s recklessness was likely to cause an economic crisis. The party’s liberal wing was not to blame. The post David Gauke: Getting the blame game wrong – you purge if you want to but it’s lazy who they are purging appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics20 Jul 2026

What do people in Burnham-on-Sea think of the likely new PM?

Andy Burnham has pledged to undertake a summer tour across the UK during the early weeks of his premiership.

Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham has no convictions and no mandate – we need an election now

OPINION - NIGEL FARAGE: Reform UK leader writes for the Express on the day Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister

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Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

Helen Whately: No, Prime Minister – it’s not enough ‘not being Starmer’ because the problems are the same

Burnham can take the familiar Labour path of higher taxes, higher spending and ever higher levels of dependency on the state. Or he can confront the problem: reform welfare, back businesses and create the conditions for more people to earn a living through work. The post Helen Whately: No, Prime Minister – it’s not enough ‘not being Starmer’ because the problems are the same appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham's coronation as PM is an insult to every Briton - we deserve so much more

OPINION - DUNCAN BARKES: The UK's latest Prime Minister arrives in Downing Street largely untested with no democratic mandate - it's not good enough

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Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham's a nice man – but changing PM isn't a silver bullet

OPINION - KEMI BADENOCH: I wish the new PM every success but he has not set out a plan or faced proper scrutiny and my job is to hold him to account

Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

David Barton: Alternative ways to save heritage buildings

The Conservatives can make a crucial difference to their communities in this chapter by actively, positively and constructively engaging with property owners to prevent sales to less sympathetic third parties. The post David Barton: Alternative ways to save heritage buildings appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik

A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else I start this column already resigned to the tune out, to the glaze over, the click away. This is not to say that I do not have faith in you, dear reader, to keep reading and caring. But I am aware, and this is central to the problem, that it is now normal, when it comes to a certain minority in this country, to speak of them as if they were some

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