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Could Andy Burnham provide cost of living support this week?

Today’s the day that Andy Burnham’s bloodless coup will be completed when he addresses the nation as prime minister in a few hours’ time. Burnham will meet with King Charles III by around noon to ...
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Reform UK Derbyshire council labelled ‘fascists’ after slashing opposition leader’s pay ‘with complete lack of evidence or justification’

Fascism does not begin with tanks on the lawn. It begins when those in power decide the opposition should be poorer, quieter, and easier to ignore.” ...
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Woke-Bashing of the Week: Culture vultures sweep on Little House on the Prairie, not realising the original was as ‘woke’ as they come

The American frontier was never as uniformly white as popular culture suggested. Acknowledging that fact is not "wokeifying" history. It’s recognising that history was always more complicated than the ...
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5 key takeaways from Andy Burnham’s first speech as Labour leader

Andy Burnham has made his first speech after being crowned as Labour leader at a special conference in London this morning. In it, he vowed to make the party “the Labour people ...
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What happens if Farage quits?

Nigel Farage’s resignation as MP for Clacton was intended to be a political masterstroke. The idea was to dominate the headlines, recast himself as the anti-establishment outsider, and shift attention ...
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Court of Appeals hands Dale Vince landmark victory over Daily Mail’s misleading ‘sex pest’ headline

The Daily Mail faces substantial costs and damages, but worse than that for them is this new duty of fairness – that throws their current business model out of the window.” ...
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Louise Haigh ‘advised Andy Burnham not to appoint Ed Miliband as chancellor’

Louise Haigh, a key ally of Labour’s Prime Minister in-waiting Andy Burnham, reportedly advised him not to appoint Ed Miliband as chancellor, as the Westminster rumour mill on who Burnham will appoint ...
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Cross-party MPs urge Andy Burnham to change voting system before next election

A group of cross-party MPs has written to Andy Burnham calling on him to ditch the first-past-the-post voting system before the next general election. As Burnham prepares to become prime minister in ...
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Who is the Green Party’s Manchester Mayoral Candidate Geraldine Coggins and what would she do as mayor?

The leader of Trafford Greens, Irish-born Geraldine Coggins, is now running for the biggest job in Manchester politics, the role of Greater Manchester mayor. But when she started out in 2010, she was ...
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Nigel Farage turned down offer of taxpayer-funded security

Nigel Farage turned down an offer of state-funded security, including a bodyguard, a car and trained driver last year. According to the i Paper, he declined the security offer, claiming that it was ...
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What do Labour members say Andy Burnham’s biggest priorities should be?

With Andy Burnham set to become Prime Minister on Monday, after securing the backing of an overwhelming chunk of the Parliamentary Labour Party, attention continues to turn to his policy platform and ...