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2026-09-28 · BBC News · Politics

Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity grid

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2026-10-12 · BBC News · Politics

Burnham to push for new post-Brexit deals at EU summit

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2026-10-08 · BBC News · Politics

Burnham to hold security talks with German chancellor in Berlin

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2026-09-21 · BBC News · Politics

I've got no ceiling on Lib Dem ambitions, says leader Ed Davey

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2026-09-19 · BBC News · Politics

Davey says Lib Dems are 'firewall against Farage' as conference begins

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2026-10-25 · BBC News · Politics

Funding set to double for plan to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas

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2026-08-04 · BBC News

🔮 Healey's first Budget will be on 28 October and will be "built on fiscal discipline", the chancellor said. assertive

2026-08-06 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Reform UK has pledged to imprison the bosses of companies employing illegal migrants and said it would fine larger firms 10 per cent of their global revenues. assertive

2026-09-06 · BBC News

🔮 The policy would use existing Green policies such as imposing rent controls, ending buy-to-let mortgages and giving councils the right to buy a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price. assertive

2026-09-15 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Trade unions are putting pressure on the government to soften proposed changes to immigration rules, which would make it harder for foreign workers to secure permanent residency in the UK. assertive

2026-09-19 · BBC News

🔮 On the first day of the autumn conference, Sir Ed warned an "unholy alliance" between Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Farage could turn the UK into a "Trump satellite state". assertive

2026-09-20 · BBC News

🔮 The Liberal Democrat leader is also urging the government to scrap a permanent increase in fuel duty which is set to take effect in January. assertive

2026-09-20 · BBC News

🔮 "This plan tears down the barriers to investment, to innovation, and to skills." Cooper called for the creation of a digital one-stop-shop service for businesses and investors, combining tax, regulatory, legal, Companies House, and general business services. Creating this within a new Department for Growth would simplify red tape and help small and medium-sized businesses compete and grow, she said. assertive

2026-09-21 · BBC News

🔮 He also backed the controversial Jackdaw gas field, which the government is expected to green light later this month, saying it had "passed the climate test" and was compatible with a transition to renewables. assertive

2026-09-28 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Andy Burnham is expected to announce a new government body to invest in Britain's electricity grid in his first party conference speech as Labour leader on Tuesday. assertive

2026-10-08 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Prime Minister Andy Burnham will hold talks on tackling cyber-security threats and sabotage with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday. Downing Street said deeper co-operation in the face of rising hybrid threats from Russia would be high on the agenda during Burnham's first official visit to Germany. assertive

2026-10-12 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told MPs he will push for new post-Brexit deals with the EU at a summit next month. mixed

2026-10-20 · BBC News

🔮 Bounce back loans worth a total of £46bn were issued when the scheme was launched in May 2020, making it the biggest of the government's pandemic-era loan schemes. Each one had a 100% government guarantee, meaning taxpayers' cash was used to pay back banks if the companies failed, but the Covid counter-fraud commissioner later found total fraud and error estimated at up to £2.8bn to the public purse. assertive

2026-10-25 · BBC News

🔮 A spokesman for the Greens insisted the party does not discriminate against people who hold Zionist views and said it rejected the Board of Deputies' "characterisation of this motion and our party". They added the decision "will not stop us from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and pushing for stronger sanctions against the Israeli government and its leaders". assertive

2026-10-25 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Funding is set to double to support a pledge by the prime minister to give every rough sleeper in England a route off the streets by Christmas. assertive