Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?

PM commits to blowing millions on nukes

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

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’

Can entrenched institutional power be overcome?

by Andrew Murray, Political reporter 

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

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