3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (1014+ words) Last week, in his first statement to the House of Commons since becoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham began by praising Sir Keir Starmer, who had just announced he was stepping away from Parliament. ‘His leadership took our party from one…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (614+ words) By MARTIN BECKFORD, POLICY EDITOR and CAMERON ROY, DATA JOURNALIST The elections watchdog has been urged to investigate after the country's biggest town hall admitted the full scale of illegal 'family voting'. Birmingham City Council revealed staff witnessed attempts to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1122+ words) By SARAH VINE, COLUMNIST Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. With Parliament in recess and Nigel Farage in hiding from Count Binface, one Andrew Murray Burnham and his team have sensed their window of opportunity – and gone for it. Ruthlessly,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (656+ words) By DAILY MAIL COMMENT If you are aspirational, own a property, have saved prudently into a pension and hope to leave a little to your children after you’ve gone… be afraid. If you also happen to live in the South…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (850+ words) Hundreds more small boat migrants have arrived during Andy Burnham’s first week as Prime Minister than the first seven days of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership, it emerged today. Another 240 migrants have arrived in Kent after illegally crossing the Channel this…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (906+ words) By TOM MIDLANE and JOSEPH LUKE PALMER The cloying praise showered on Keir Starmer by Labour MPs as he exited No 10 this week was almost enough to convince you that they'd got rid of him for being too popular, Peter…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1024+ words) By MICHAEL BLACKLEY, SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL POLITICAL EDITOR and TOM GORDON, SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR Anas Sarwar is to quit as Scottish Labour leader to take up a job in Andy Burnham’s new government – after having led calls…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1348+ words) By STEPHEN DAISLEY, SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL SKETCH WRITER Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a grand and stately title but the office tends to be whatever the minister makes of it. And all the signs are that Louise Haigh…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (897+ words) By NADINE DORRIES, COLUMNIST There’s a phrase beloved of civil servants tasked with assisting a newly appointed Secretary of State in their first weeks in the job: ‘He’s/she’s drinking from a firehose.’ I heard it several times in my…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (658+ words) Green energy tycoon Dale Vince donned a 'chips are vegan' T-shirt today after he was invited to Downing Street to help welcome Andy Burnham as the new Prime Minister. Mr Vince described himself as 'overwhelmingly positive and excited' about the…...