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Burnham sacks the Starmerites – but keeps their politics
Out go Reeves, Lammy and the rest of the Starmer old guard, but with Healey at the Treasury and Mahmood at the Home Office, the new PM’s top team suggests continuity, not the break with neoliberalism Andy Burnham has promised, says Andy Walker.
Take out the trash: Why Clacton should send Farage to the bin
As Farage tries to dodge scrutiny over his undeclared millions by playing the outsider, Clacton has the perfect chance to show him exactly where he belongs.
What does Andy Burnham actually stand for?
As Burnham eyes Number Ten, his own book very much suggests a premiership built on constitutional tinkering, not redistribution, says Andy Walker.
The establishment’s fingerprints are all over the far right’s rise
A forensic new book by Daniel Trilling traces how Britain’s political establishment normalised the far right and asks whether it’s too late to reverse course.
Who rigged Labour’s parliament? Investigators want to know
Paul Holden, author of The Fraud, is calling for evidence about how Labour’s candidate selections were rigged to produce the loyalist parliament that now determines the party’s future.
New index reveals staggering regional inequality in UK and calls for a political revolution to solve it
A new index showing staggering regional inequality launches in Newcastle today and it reveals a UK that is woefully underprepared for the emerging challenges of the near future.