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This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereCouples could legally marry in forests, on beaches, at sea or in their gardens under new proposals, the Press Association reports. PA says...
Few know who will get top jobs when new PM enters No 10 and the vacuum of information has its downsidesAs Labour MPs filed out of Portcullis House on the last day before parliament rose – and Andy Bur...
Critics say Foreign Office figures send ‘global message about the role the country wants to play on international stage’Labour’s foreign aid cuts mean reductions of as much as 90% in the bilateral sup...
Exclusive: Green party launches pushback against idea that next PM will have more left-leaning agenda than StarmerAndy Burnham is “too in hock to vested interests” to offer real change, Zack Polanski...
Heatwaves, high energy prices, calls for reindustrialisation and North Sea drilling are all high on the to-do listWildfires cast a pall of smoke this week over Greater Manchester, whose former mayor A...
Andy Burnham will become prime minister of the UK on Monday. But he has yet to reveal any cabinet picks, and rumours suggest he still hasn’t chosen a chancellor. What do we actually know about his pla...
JCVI says children should have one or two doses of menB vaccine at age 15, depending on if they had vaccine as a babyAll teenagers across the UK should be offered a meningitis vaccine on the NHS follo...
Move raises questions over position of the head of the Maritime and Coastguard AgencyUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have U-turned on plans to strip volunteer coastguard officers of their h...
Rise in GDP follows a 0.1% decline in April, figures from the Office for National Statistics showThe UK economy returned to growth in May, despite the impact of the Iran war on energy costs, official...
Scunthorpe factory expropriated from China’s Jingye and ministers will ask a valuer to assess compensationBritish Steel has formally been taken into public ownership 15 months after the government ste...
The dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policyA British girl was prevented from returning to her school in the UK for six weeks...
In the first of a two-part profile, Daniel Boffey traces the incoming PM’s early forays into politics and his rise to prominence – ultimately leading to him leaving London for ManchesterAndy Burnham h...
Rain Newton-Smith calls for a new generation of public-private partnerships to fund major projectsAndy Burnham must avoid another “summer of speculation” on tax and spend that would spook British busi...
The home secretary is the frontrunner for the role ahead of ‘risky’ Ed Miliband, according to senior Labour figuresShabana Mahmood has emerged as the frontrunner to become Andy Burnham’s chancellor af...
Incoming prime minister says he doesn’t want to ‘create new divisions’ as Mahmood is tipped to be chancellorAndy Burnham has signalled that he will not increase wealth taxes immediately after becoming...
The bill would allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults who meet strict criteria.
The challenges facing Britain’s next PM. Plus: Fury amid the rubble in VenezuelaAndy Burnham is to become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade, having secured the Labour leadership with the la...
Former leader was last month convicted of 18 sex offences, including one count of rapeTell us: what do you want from the next Labour leader and UK prime minister?Labour should ditch the triple-lock pe...
Politician spoke to senior figures in Reform in March 2024 about covering lost earnings, sources tell the GuardianNigel Farage told senior figures in Reform UK he would need “a million a year” to cove...