Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON
BERTOLT BRECHT once remarked that if you want to make money, you would be better off owning a bank rather than robbing one.
As recent weeks have shown, banks hold enormous power in our society.
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget announced a series of mistaken policy shifts that sparked a response from financial markets that ultimately brought them down.
A sharp rise in public-sector investment is required to kick-start the economy, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP



