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“Andy Burnham is going to be the next prime minister, he would win.”
“Jones suggested more than 100 MPs had asked him to stand in a leadership contest or were worried about the lack of focus on economic policies.”
“Black cab drivers already urged that the government must close this tax loophole used by Uber and Bolt, writing to the Chancellor last November asking her to make the tech ride-hailing apps pay the same level of VAT as cabbies.”
“has spent 21 of the past 25 years on Labour’s front bench”
“Thursday sees the Makerfield by-election”
“Despite romping home to victory in the Makerfield by-election on Friday, Andy Burnham still has hurdles to clear before he achieves his long-held ambition of the Labour leadership and the keys to Downing Street. Burnham may have won over m…”
“Burnham’s quest for the Labour leadership stretches back to the New Labour years, when he first made a tilt for the top job in 2010 before losing out to Ed Miliband.”
“He then later lost to Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 leadership race.”
“While Makerfield was dominated by Reform UK in the recent local election, Burnham inflicted a rout on the party and secured over half of the vote.”
“He first set nerves jangling when he told the New Statesman that Labour had been too 'in hock to the bond markets'. These six words – ‘in hock to the bond markets’ — have defined Burnham for at least nine months...”
“In that piece, he called on Westminster to embrace Manchesterism – an economic vision with tangled public-private partnership roots.”
“Speaking on Friday morning, Starmer congratulated the former Manchester mayor after he won an emphatic victory over Reform UK”
“Burnham has publicly said he would enter a leadership contest though it now remains to be seen how a race may be triggered. Speaking after his election victory, Burnham warned that Labour was facing its 'last chance' to win any election.”
“Challengers to Starmer must get the backing of at least 81 MPs in order to trigger a contest”
“Streeting has said he has the necessary backing of 81 MPs needed to trigger a contest”
“I’m not going to walk away from that,” he told broadcasters, referring to the mandate he won in 2024.”
“The tide is turning on Reform,” he added. “They can’t now win by-elections, they’ve probably reached the peak of their support, it’s going down.”
“end the loophole on low value imports (LVIs) in October 2028, just six months earlier than previously planned.”
“the UK remains “years behind” the EU and the US, which closed its de minimis loophole last year.”
“claimed parliamentary expenses of more than £16,000 for a mortgage that did not exist.”
“continued to claim for the mortgage interest on his constituency home for more than 18 months after the loan had already been paid off.”
“would return £41,000 in misclaimed expenses”
“brandished a £13,300 cheque to pay Inland Revenue for tax she avoided on a London flat.”
“more than £100,000 has been returned by 20 MPs from four parties”
“scrap the £10,000 communications allowance claimed by MPs and to axe the number of MPs in the Commons by ten per cent.”
“31 out of 58 holders of the office to date, including 13 of the 18 postwar occupants of Downing Street”
““The expert opinion clearly shows that the legal requirements for a ban procedure against the Alternative for Germany are met,” Clara Bünger, Left Party (Die Linke) Member of the Bundestag told The Local.”
“Nationwide, recent polls suggest that between 26 and 29 percent of voters support the AfD, giving it a clear lead over any other party.”
“So if the AfD were to be banned, a potential consequence would be that around a quarter of voters could feel disenfranchised.”
“the economic inactivity rate in the North is 15 per cent higher than for London and a whopping 29 per cent higher than in south east.”
“Andy Burnham has previously a ‘proportional property tax’ which would mean Londoner’s taxes going to pay for leisure centres in the North, says Charles Amos”
“Starmer added the government had already "taken powers earlier this year to make sure we could move at speed", with legislation expected to be enacted before Christmas and the restrictions to come into force early next year.”
“The move comes after the government closed its consultation on a potential ban less than three weeks ago, and Cain said "it is difficult to believe" that the government has "given proper consideration" to the 116,000 responses it received …”
“A THIRD Tory MP has said he will not stand at the next General Election after it emerged he claimed for a “duck island” for his garden pond.”
“The MP for Gosport submitted a claim for a floating duck island worth £1,645 for the garden pond at his Hampshire Home.”
“Backbencher Sir Peter Viggers, who served in Margaret Thatcher’s government, was told he would be thrown out of the party by leader David Cameron if he did not resign.”
“Meanwhile, the expenses of Tory whip Bill Wiggins were published, and appeared to show he had claimed interest payments on a property with no mortgage, although he said this was an administrative error.”
“And it emerged that Labour MP Ruth Kelly claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to repair flood damage to her second home – even though she had an insurance policy.”
“THREE more MPs said yesterday they would not stand at the next election after they became caught up in the expenses scandal.”
“She also claimed £1,040 for glamorous photos of herself in a hayfield that have been widely used in the media.”
“She also built an extension with a taxpayer-funded mortgage so that one of her sons could have his own bedroom.”
“Moran had been under intense pressure to resign after charging the taxpayer £22,500 for treating dry rot in her designated second home in Southampton”
“Conservative MP Christopher Fraser, who claimed expenses for 140 cherry trees and 75 red cedars, will be stepping down.”
“Last night it was claimed that Conservative MP Bill Cash claimed £15,000 to pay his daughter rent even though he had a home closer to Westminster.”
“later said he had only met Starmer twice.”
“The government has also warned the local authority that the bank was ‘unlikely to progress’ on the new tower ‘without clarity and certainty’ on its tax bill.”
“Rachel Reeves touted the investment as a ‘multi-billion pound vote of confidence in the UK economy’.”
“Labour have no right to even be competitive in this seat; they should be 20-odd points behind based on national polling and the government’s unpopularity in the country.”
“remember: they have eight MPs currently and need 326 for a majority”
“This is target seat number 29 for Farge’s outfit”
“Restore breaking five per cent or so will confirm they are a real phenomenon and not just social media froth.”
“Burnham is succeeding in Makerfield largely because of efficiency. He is clawing back Labour 2024 voters that had mostly been lost to indecision, apathy or another left-wing party.”
“Where some Labour voters have been lost to Reform, he has plugged the gap with Lib Dems, Greens and an important sliver of Reform 2024 voters drawn to his platform.”
“by the end of 2026”
“15 years from now”
“Burnham stormed to victory in Makerfield on Friday morning, warning that Labour has a "final chance to change". The former Mayor of Greater Manchester defeated Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon by 9.231 votes, widening Labour’s vote share in the c…”
“Any leadership contender requires the backing of 81 MPs to trigger a contest to unseat Starmer.”
“Burnham is due to meet with Starmer at the beginning of next week, and his allies have claimed he will present the Prime Minister with a list of 200 MPs who would back him in a contest.”
“Starmer also recalled that he backed Burnham to become Labour leader in 2015”
“if he wins the by-election on Thursday”
“On Tuesday, former health secretary Wes Streeting also built on his campaign to become Labour leader as he delivered a speech focusing on driving growth by passing legislation to allow critical infrastructure to be built quickly”
“Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick has said the party would undo Rachel Reeves’ £25bn tax rise on employers’ national insurance contributions – but only when employers hire British workers.”
“The tax would be funded by a new levy on foreign workers, which would be graduated according to the number of people employed. The same NICs tax rate of 15 per cent would still apply to employers when foreign nationals are employed.”
“Jenrick told journalists that the party would not provide a full assessment on the policy’s costs as there were up to three years until the next scheduled General Election.”
“more than 220,000 signatures”
“more than 50 cross‑party MPs”
“It took us three years to finally obtain judicial cooperation”
“Britain is in a situation where there are probably more than one million irregular immigrants (…)”
“you have only 5,000 deportations per year”
“three per cent GDP 2030 target”
“Set up in 2001 between China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, to tackle extremism in the region.”
“botched together in 2021”
“until his tragic passing in 2011.”
“Culture secretary Lisa Nandy will ask the competition and media watchdogs to probe Paramount’s £85bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery to ensure the mega-deal doesn’t stifle the breadth of Britain’s media ecosystem.”
“She has given Paramount and Warner until 6 July to respond and said she was committed to completing the review in “a timely manner”.”
“Burnham said he would keep the triple lock pension, the mechanism that ensures the taxpayer-funded state pension rises by whichever is highest out of wage growth, inflation or 2.5 per cent.”
“the Manchester mayor, who is hoping to win the Makerfield by-election this week ahead of a leadership bid”
“The 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote system was a concession by David Cameron to his Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues, but it was an unloved child. Turnout was only 42 per cent and two-thirds of those opted against the new voti…”
“In the 2014 elections, UKIP had won 24 of the UK’s 87 seats in the European Parliament.”
“In February 2016 Cameron declared that the referendum would be held on 23 June: Her Majesty’s Government would formally advise the electorate to vote to remain in the EU...”
“Exceeding expectations, the Conservatives gained 24 seats and won the election outright.”
“In 2012, with his Chief of Staff, Ed Llewellyn, and Foreign Secretary William Hague, Cameron raised the possibility of a referendum on EU membership...”
“In 2013, he announced that a referendum on renegotiated terms of membership would be in the Conservative manifesto at the next general election.”
“where the financial services sector employs more than 1m people and generates billions of pounds in income”
“Former Mayor Ken Livingstone had argued that when the £16bn London east-west rail link Crossrail is built in 2016, easier access to Heathrow would mean there is no need for London City, and that the 130-acre site should be used for housing.”
“the 50p top tax rate was “a piece of economic vandalism.””
“the tax rate equated to a “tearing up of the manifesto commitment to the country’s entrepreneurial class.””
“focusing on core services and cutting back on non-essential ones was preferable to putting up income tax”
“Whilst Andrew Bailey and I have our disagreements, I would never take it that far!”
“The next Spending Review, which could lead to a revision in funding agreements, is scheduled for mid-2027”
“Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf claimed he had warned “for months” about an access ban as he hit out at the government for having “virtually zero sovereign AI capability”.”
“It comes after the UK government announced legislation to ban social media for teenagers under 16, while introducing a curfew for those between 16 and 18, from next year.”
“She also compared his “betrayal” to when he stood against his brother David Miliband in the Labour leadership election in 2010, saying: “It’s not the first time he’s betrayed someone close to him, is it?”
“The Labour government’s pledge to complete 1.5m homes during its term in office has come against mounting costs and red tape.”
“Around 60,000 people were estimated to have crossed into Ceuta in the past few days, more than half of Ceuta's population.”
“at least 34 people had died while trying to cross the border.”
“More than 25,000 migrants have voluntarily returned to Morocco, according to Spain's Interior Ministry.”
“In 2021, more than 10,000 migrants reached Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco over the course of two days.”
“Sanchez visited Algiers on July 20 – the first such visit by a Spanish head of government in four years – marking a thaw in relations with Algeria.”
“Ceuta and Melilla have Europe's only two land borders with Africa.”
