Tag: Andy Burnham

New education secretary backed more taxes on private sc...

In 2019, Lucy Powell argued for bigger raid on independent sector, claiming char...

How the early release crisis engulfed Labour

What started as an emergency response to overcrowded prisons has given Andy Burn...

White House concerned over Miliband as Foreign Secretary

Washington warned against appointment before Andy Burnham became Prime Minister,...

Wrack and ruin - Burnham becomes prime minister

Michael E. J. Phillips / Lecturer at the Department of French, Salahaddin Univer...

Thatcher’s ‘genius’ put backbone in Britain, says Badenoch

Tory leader defends former prime minister against Andy Burnham’s attack on her l...

How a convicted fraudster became Andy Burnham’s right-h...

Louise Haigh pledged her loyalty to Starmer when she quit in a scandal. But with...

Burnham ‘plans £38bn tax raid’

Surprise spending spree would pile pressure on new PM to call early election, Re...

The greasy pole: politics and democracy

Michael EJ Phillips

Starmer never had a popular mandate. That’s why the bla...

For many of the large majority who didn’t vote for him, Sir Keir looked like a l...

Defence black hole triples to £15bn

Andy Burnham will have to make unpopular spending cuts after No 10 admits it doe...

North Sea security and Piper Alpha plea from new Aberde...

Douglas Lumsden put the future of oil and gas at the centre of his first pitch t...

Starmer leaves Burnham with £5bn defence black hole

PM fails to tell successor how he will find the extra money needed to fund much-...

Burnham threatens to be the latest PM thwarted by Tony ...

Even Starmer ended up frustrated that the administrative and judicial state stan...

Mrs Badenoch mocks Labour over claim Burnham will be li...

Tory leader derides comment he would be Labour’s ‘first woman PM’ in ‘all but sex’

Trump says Burnham is ‘extremely liberal’

US president dismisses potential PM as ‘mayor of a town’ and suggests he hopes B...