As Starmer eyes the exit, here’s a vital lesson for Andy Burnham: first impressions...
The Guardian • June 21, 2026
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If the Makerfield MP is to be our next PM, he needs some immediate and memorable cost of living policies to avoid his predecessor’s fate Pause here before...
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Stop and inhale last week’s rare political triumph, revel in the sunshine of cheery optimism.
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It was a precious but unfamiliar sensation when life on the progressive side of politics in Britain is so often a litany of hopes dashed and...
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Andy Burnham’s comprehensive victory in the Makerfield byelection, surpassing expectations, was a precious moment.
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He demolished £5m-Nigel Farage’s party of loathsome Reformers, whose every election candidate seems more repugnant than the last.
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Hostile hard-right politics in Britain needs defeating time and time again, every time nativists and hate-stirrers – from Enoch Powell to the BNP – erupt...
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