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The military contradiction at the heart of Burnham’s plans
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Iran War Scotland Workers' Rights Andy Burnham Climate Crisis Middle East 2026 Commonwealth Games
Andrew Murray
The O2 Academy Brixton music venue in London
Britain / 23 July 2026
Left welcomes Burnham’s rates-relief package for pubs and music venues
23 July 2026
Displaced Palestinians lineup to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 23, 2026
Human Rights / 23 July 2026
MPs and Peers call on Burnham to uphold Palestinian rights
23 July 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaking to members of the media in front of a FirstGroup bus during a visit to a bus station in Bath, Somerset to highlight what the government is doing to help families with the cost of living, July 22, 2026
Politics / 22 July 2026
Cheaper buses but more bombs from Burnham
22 July 2026

Mr Burnham's £2 cap on bus fares welcomed by trade unions

Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, July 21, 2026
Politics / 21 July 2026
‘We need to be a cost-of-living government’
21 July 2026

New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’

Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrives to host his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, July 21, 2026
Eyes Left / 22 July 2026
Can Burnham really reverse 40 years of neoliberalism?
22 July 2026

Can entrenched institutional power be overcome?

Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, July 21, 2026
Politics / 21 July 2026
Burnham culls Starmer gang for first majority-women Cabinet
21 July 2026
New Prime Minister Andy Burnham makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, after meeting King Charles III and accepting his invitation to become Prime Minister and form a new government, July 20, 2026
Downing Street / 20 July 2026
Burnham takes over, tackling homelessness and firing rightwingers
20 July 2026
Andy Burnham 17.7.26
Britain / 17 July 2026
Burnham: I’ll end 40 years of Thatcherism
17 July 2026
Peter Olech (left) and Richard Shillcock are standing
Edinburgh City Council by-election / 17 July 2026
Communists contest Edinburgh polls
17 July 2026

by Andrew Murray, Political reporter 

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his final scheduled Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 15, 2026
Parliament / 15 July 2026
Starmer quits with smear at Corbyn
15 July 2026

Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor

Richard Burgon during the Labour leadership hustings at the SEC centre, Glasgow, February 2020
Parliament / 15 July 2026
Labour's Richard Burgon urges ban on MPs taking second jobs
15 July 2026
Jana, 8, mourns over the body of her 10-year-old brother, Motaz Abu Shaar, who was killed by the Israeli military, during his funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2026
Gaza Genocide / 14 July 2026
Sanction Israel now, MPs urge
14 July 2026

82 MPs and peers test incoming premier Andy Burnham’s intentions to reset government policy towards Israel