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Express Politics11 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham could be about to scrap a huge tax hitting millions

The former Manchester Mayor has previously endorsed property tax reform, suggesting there could be a more 'productive' alternative.

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Guido Fawkes11 Jul 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 1,024,149 visitors visited 932,665 times viewing 941,352 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Farage Publishes Footage of Media at His Daughter’s Home Wealth Tax Campaigner Gary Stevenson: I’m Quitting Labour Buys Quarter of a Million Pounds Worth of Jaguar Reform Makes Complaint After ‘Catching Guardian Journalist Recording…

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The Guardian Politics11 Jul 2026

Labour MPs call for Andy Burnham to restore aid spending target set by Brown

Thinktank urges prospective prime minister to reclaim UK’s role as an international leader on development Influential backbenchers are calling on Andy Burnham to reclaim Labour’s leadership on international development and chart a course back to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid. In a collection of essays to be published soon by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) thinktank, MPs lay out proposals for a Burnham-led government to rethink foreign policy. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts | Editorial

Stronger European welfare states expose a Tory myth. Benefits can enable independence, work and growth Sir Stephen Timms, Labour’s minister for social security and disability, is widely acknowledged to be a parliamentary expert on welfare. He has seen the system from almost every angle: as a pensions and Treasury minister under New Labour, a shadow welfare spokesperson, a select committee chair, and now as a government minister. After Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’s ham-fisted attempt to b

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Express Politics10 Jul 2026

Labour treat taxpayers like mugs – this latest example is absolutely shocking

OPINION - SAM LISTER: This latest idea is absolute madness.

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Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

Gary Stevenson’s Wealth Tax Documentary Universally Trashed, Even by the Left

It’s not been a great week for Gary Stevenson. Maybe that’s why he said he’s going to quit on Piers Morgan… The Times kindly said Gary’s “willingness to put his passionate arguments to those who most forcefully oppose them makes for thought-provoking television.” The Telegraph dissected all the factual errors and concluded: “Voices like Stevenson’s…

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

The bulging in-tray of challenges Andy Burnham faces upon entering No 10

From welfare and defence spending to cost of living and geopolitics, we the look at issues leftover from Keir Starmer UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham is expected to become prime minister in less than two weeks, and has promised to significantly change Labour’s agenda and deliver better for all parts of the UK. But he will arrive with a bulging in-tray of challenges on multiple fronts and issues leftover from Keir Starmer – from geopolitics to the cost of living. Here is what Bur

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency

As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health MPs are calling on the UK government to host a televised national climate emergency briefing in response to what has been described as the most “insidious threat to our society”. In November, in the “first-of-its-kind, national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Westminster Hall of the scale of the changes needed to adapt the country to the rapidly changing

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

UK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother says

Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself day after meeting about anonymous complaint in which she was not allowed to bring a colleague The mother of a young woman who took her own life after facing disciplinary proceedings at the Treasury has called on the government department to change its practices. Chloe Moffat, 26, had worked at the Treasury as a personal assistant for almost three years. She “loved her job” and had an “exemplary employment record”, the coroner at her inquest heard this week. Cont

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Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

Ofcom Chief Executive’s Inflation-Busting Pay Rise Takes Her Salary to Almost £500,000

Ofcom’s annual report and accounts for 2025/26 shows that its chief executive took home a whopping £478,784. Up from £455,324 the year before – her salary and allowances rose by an inflation-busting 4.87%… Total staff costs jumped by 10% to £153.1 million which is two-thirds of all operating expenditure. Headcount rose to 1,665 from 1,557,…

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The Guardian Politics10 Jul 2026

Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott

Britain’s PM-in-waiting is right that the country has been failed by 40 years of neoliberalism. There will be obstacles, but he must embrace radicalism Of all the many prime ministers who have walked through the doors of 10 Downing Street in the past decade, the one Andy Burnham resembles most is Liz Truss. Both had a view of what was going wrong with the economy. Both wanted to break with the politics of managed decline. Both had ambitious ideas for what needed to be done. Truss, of course, ca

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The Guardian Politics9 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham urged to scrap income tax and NI in radical fiscal overhaul

Economists including Jim O’Neill write an open letter calling for a single levy to replace six major taxes Prominent economists including Andy Burnham ally Jim O’Neill, are urging him to pursue radical tax and spending reform, to “unlock the gridlock that plagues the country”. O’Neill joins Jonathan Portes, economics professor at Kings College London, and Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, in calling for bold action in an open letter. Continue reading...

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