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Keir Starmer makes Sadiq Khan a peer in the House of Lords

Appointment by the outgoing prime minister potentially opens door for London mayor to join Burnham cabinetUK politics live – latest updatesSadiq Khan has been handed a peerage by Keir Starmer just day...

Thinktanks should rethink their funding models | Letters

Hylton Guthrie says the UK has a problem with opaque political funding, while Andy McWilliam wonders if the closure of the High Pay Centre presents Andy Burnham with an opportunityPolly Toynbee lament...

Sadiq Khan given seat in Lords, as Starmer creates 26 new peers days before he leaves No 10 – as it happened

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...

Burnham’s ‘black box’ plans for cabinet send Westminster into hysteria

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...

UK aid cuts ‘reduce bilateral support to some African countries by 90%’

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...

Burnham too influenced by ‘vested interests’ to offer change, Polanski says

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...

How green is Andy Burnham? Britain’s next PM faces tough climate decisions

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...

Mahmood v Miliband: who will Burnham choose for chancellor? – podcast

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...

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Offer teenagers a meningitis B vaccine on NHS, advisers tell UK government

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...

UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers

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...

UK economy grew by 0.1% in May despite impact of Iran war

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...

British Steel is taken into public ownership to save UK supply

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...

British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules

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...

From Cambridge ‘impostor’ to New Labour star: Andy Burnham’s winding path to power

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...

Burnham must avoid ‘summer of speculation’ on tax, warns CBI chief

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...

Shabana Mahmood expected to be named Andy Burnham’s chancellor

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...

Andy Burnham signals a wealth tax is off the agenda for now

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...

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French MPs approve assisted dying law with strict rules after years of argument

The bill would allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults who meet strict criteria.

Andy Burnham’s path to No 10: inside the 17 July Guardian Weekly

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...