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The Guardian Politics31 Jul 2026

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns Andy Burnham was told he could face the first revolt of his premiership as Labour MPs and climate experts condemned his apparent support for renewed drilling for oil and gas. As the UK suffers through drought, fires and heatwaves, the prime minister gave the strongest indication yet on Friday he was minded to allow for new drilling. His comments came just hours before the UN secretary-gen

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The Guardian Politics31 Jul 2026

The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial

Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans The iconic Lovell telescope, housed at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, has always expanded our view of the universe – from tracking the Sputnik launch in 1957 to its current contributions to the study of dark matter. It is now threatened with closure after it was announced that government funding will not continue past March 2028. The projected savings are just £2.8m a year. This is

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The Guardian Politics31 Jul 2026

Daughter of British couple killed in Spanish wildfire rejects claim they ignored order to leave

Exclusive: Danielle Kirton calls on Ed Miliband to help her get answers about why evacuation order came too late The bereaved daughter of a British couple who died in a Spanish wildfire is calling on Ed Miliband to get answers from Spain’s government about why her parents were not told to evacuate until it was too late. Severe wildfires have burned across Spain and France since early July, killing people, destroying thousands of homes and forcing more than 300,000 people to flee. Continue readi

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The Guardian Politics31 Jul 2026

The Burnham bounce is eclipsing the Green surge – and Zack Polanski’s radical hope is being tested | Gaby Hinsliff

The new PM is enjoying a honeymoon period but, longer-term, the Greens have the freedom to say whatever Labour won’t Cackling happily into their pints, the two most powerful men in the country scoff their way through a selection of pub snacks. Pork scratchings or scampi fries? Or maybe old-school peanuts? It’s hardly the toughest choice currently facing Andy Burnham and the chancellor, John Healey, so some may find this week’s made-to-go-viral Instagram reel of them gleefully ranking crisps a b

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Conservative Home31 Jul 2026

Elizabeth Campbell: We have a duty to stop housing fraud

The message from Kensington and Chelsea is straightforward. Social homes are for people who need a home. They are not for profiteering, they are not for holiday lets, and they are not a private income stream. The post Elizabeth Campbell: We have a duty to stop housing fraud appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics30 Jul 2026

The Guardian view on prolonging kidulthood: Britain prices young adults out of independent life | Editorial

More young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequality In Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s to 42% today. The researc

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The Guardian Politics30 Jul 2026

‘Ryanair refused to let us on’: how a couple who’ve lived in UK for 80 years got stuck in Krakow

Maria and Czeslaw Krupa, who arrived in 1947 and 1948 as dependents of displaced Polish service members, were told they did not have post-Brexit rights to return to UK Two Polish citizens who have lived in the UK for nearly 80 years after their parents fled the second world war have spoken of their terrifying experience after being told they did not have post-Brexit rights to return to the UK. In May, while visiting Poland, they learned that although they had been welcomed as refugees after the

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Burnham’s ‘Right-Hand’ Cabinet Minister in Charge of National Security Repeatedly Backed Total UK Nuclear Disarmament

Burnham’s right-hand woman and the Cabinet minister in with responsibility for national security has repeatedly opposed Trident and backed full unilateral nuclear disarmament. While Burnham re-announces a £8.4 billion investment in the UK’s nuclear deterrent… Oversight of national security policy coordination belongs to Louise Haigh, who will be running the new Office for the Prime…

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Conservative Home30 Jul 2026

Daniel Freeman: Here’s what Andy Burnham should have announced on property tax

This approach would see the government lose in the first year much of the roughly £11bn it receives from residential Stamp Duty, but this would recover over time as properties change hands and transition to the new system, and the economic benefits from a tax that does not punish moving house would be considerable. The post Daniel Freeman: Here’s what Andy Burnham should have announced on property tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics30 Jul 2026

Months of torrential rain and then a hosepipe ban – water bosses should be jailed

OPINION - VIRGINIA BLACKBURN: These people give capitalism a bad name.

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Express Politics29 Jul 2026

Dame Esther Rantzen pens heartbreaking assisted dying plea – 'please Prime Minister'

Andy Burnham said it is 'very challenging' to debate the issue amid gaps in the current offer of care at the end of life.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Harry Richer: Tolerance in Britain is a conversation we cannot keep avoiding

Comfortable conversations rarely fix anything, and Britain has been avoiding this uncomfortable conversation for twenty-plus years while some who have benefitted from our current version of tolerance have started to decide that it no longer applies to them. The post Harry Richer: Tolerance in Britain is a conversation we cannot keep avoiding appeared first on Conservative Home.

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