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Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, September 9, 2026

Britain / 10 September 2026

TUC general secretary tells PM to build an ‘economy that works for working people’

10 September 2026

A London bus

Industrial / 9 September 2026

Air conditioning to be fitted to all London bus cabs following Unite campaign

9 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 9, 2026

Middle East / 9 September 2026

Britain proud to be ‘showing leadership’ on Palestine, says Burnham

9 September 2026

A firearms officer during a taser demonstration at the British Transport Police building in central London, October 2, 2025

Britain / 9 September 2026

Police Scotland urged to stop use of Tasers on children

9 September 2026

Wales / 10 September 2026

Welsh high streets losing £126m a year due to outsourced care workers

10 September 2026

Britain / 10 September 2026

Young disabled people’s employment ambitions held back by low expectations and lack of support

10 September 2026

Scottish Education Secretary Mairi McAllan with students at Broughton High School in Edinburgh, August 4, 2026

Scotland / 9 September 2026

Scottish Education Secretary promises curriculum reform

9 September 2026

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander arrives at Downing Street, London, May 19, 2026

Britain / 9 September 2026

Transport Secretary under pressure over widespread air cancellations

9 September 2026

A protest against AI datacentres until their impact can be fully assessed, outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, September 3, 2026

Big Tech / 9 September 2026

UK datacentres to create just 25% of jobs predicted by big tech, analysis finds

9 September 2026

Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 4, 2026

Britain / 8 September 2026

Farage’s call for face covering ban risks ‘emboldening racists’

8 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband making a statement on Israel-Palestine in the House of Commons, London September 8, 2026

Middle East / 8 September 2026

Labour acts at last on Israeli crimes

8 September 2026

School students during a lesson

Education / 8 September 2026

Pupils in England pull further ahead of those in Scotland and Wales, unions react

8 September 2026

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

Ukraine War / 8 September 2026

Streeting branded ‘delusional’ after telling Russia Britain ‘won't flinch’ in support of Ukraine

8 September 2026

Earth from space

Militarism / 8 September 2026

Shetland spaceport investment under fire

8 September 2026

Unison

Industrial / 8 September 2026

Two Unison members win damages in harassment case

8 September 2026

Children's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza meets pupils at Harris Westminster Sixth Form school in London, December 16, 2025

Britain / 8 September 2026

Almost every council placing vulnerable children into illegal care homes

8 September 2026

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward

Healthcare / 9 September 2026

More than 1.7 million patients waited for over 12 hours in A&E last year

9 September 2026

Industrial / 8 September 2026

Public sector workers demand extra resources after rising complaints

8 September 2026

Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, September 11, 2023

Britain / 9 September 2026

Tens of thousands missing from official Neets statistics, warns Children’s Commissioner

9 September 2026

Pupils in a classroom

Education / 8 September 2026

Nasuwt urges Burnham to fund schools in new campaign over ‘unprecedented challenges’

8 September 2026

Alan Milburn speaks at the first national conference of the

Employment / 8 September 2026

Up to 100,000 job placements for Neets under DWP retailers’ scheme

8 September 2026

Wales / 8 September 2026

Welsh Labour council leader calls out ‘racist’ social media posts by Restore politician

8 September 2026

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey delivers speech Manufacturing Technology Centre Sept. 7, 2026

Economy / 7 September 2026

Chancellor John Healey vows to ‘draw a line’ under rising costs for businesses during first major speech

7 September 2026

Dabinderjit Singh, chief executive for political engagement at the Sikh Federation, during a march in London, June 7, 2026

Britain / 7 September 2026

Sikh federation and Indian Workers Association condemn visit of far-right RSS leader to London gurdwara

7 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, August 28, 2026

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Tenement arsonists will face ‘full force’ of law, says Swinney

7 September 2026

Jamaica's Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, attends a service for

Reparations / 7 September 2026

Jamaica delegation presents slavery reparations petition to King

7 September 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, speaks to the media outside the Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026

Politics / 7 September 2026

Polanski to face Green rival in bid to contest Starmer’s old seat

7 September 2026

Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, Edinburgh

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Time to reform ‘rubbish’ Holyrood committees

7 September 2026

Peter Crane, who has driven for Arriva for 22 years, shows a photo of a temperature reading from inside his cab at 44C, as he takes part in strike action at Wood Green Bus station in north London

Industrial / 7 September 2026

Unite hails hot bus win as drivers no longer have to ‘sweat it out’

7 September 2026

Police officers at Eastney Point, Portsmouth, following a protest after people thought to be migrants were brought into the harbour, September 7, 2026

Policing / 7 September 2026

Far right Patriot Platform block migrants in Portsmouth, no arrests made

7 September 2026

Dr Eman El Bahnassawy, who is from Palestine, speaking during a pro-Palestine march in Edinburgh

Justice System / 7 September 2026

Prosecutors challenged on branding Palestine chant a hate crime

7 September 2026

Liverpool buses

Transport / 7 September 2026

Liverpool buses brought under public control as Burnham hails end of ‘four decades of deregulation’

7 September 2026

Solar power plant panels

Climate Crisis / 7 September 2026

End battery rip-off and take control to lower bills, says Prospect

7 September 2026

Ryan Bridge from Raise the Colours speaks during a protest in Crowborough, East Sussex

Britain / 7 September 2026

Raise the colours founder charged with 14 offences

7 September 2026

Families from the Chinook Justice Campaign outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, ahead of a hearing to determine whether they can proceed with a Judicial Review, July 14, 2026

Britain / 8 September 2026

Chinook crash families demand meeting with PM

8 September 2026

Scotland / 7 September 2026

Greens call on SNP to reinstate free-school meal pilot

7 September 2026

Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster, London, ahead of a debate in the House of Commons on assisted dying, April 29, 2024

Healthcare / 7 September 2026

Improved palliative care wouldn’t stop assisted suicide threatening vulnerable, says campaigner

7 September 2026

Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport

Reparations / 6 September 2026

Jamaica minister backs slavery reparations as petition filed to the King

6 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband

Britain / 6 September 2026

Labour moves to sanction Israel

6 September 2026

But campaigners say more must be done

Jaguar Land Rover

Industrial / 6 September 2026

4,000 Jaguar Land Rover jobs hang in the balance

6 September 2026

Unite hits back as government says there will be no bailout

Xenophobia / 6 September 2026

Anti-racists in disbelief after police allow 'modern blackshirts' to blocade Port of Dover

6 September 2026

Nigel Farage

Media / 6 September 2026

Anti-racists slam Farage's latest racist attempts to distract from scandal

6 September 2026

Joint Council for the Welfare of Migrants hits back as Farage said he would 'take back control of the Channel’

NHS staff face assaults on weekly basis

NHS assaults / 7 September 2026

Two in three A&E attacks involve discrimination, RCEM warns

7 September 2026

Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey

Budget / 6 September 2026

Chancellor signals out-of-city growth push as experts say economy shrank in July

6 September 2026

Attingham Park in Shropshire

Conservation / 7 September 2026

Record numbers of young people join National Trust last year

7 September 2026

Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber, stands with Darren Coates, a son of Ian Coates

Nottingham attacks / 6 September 2026

Mental health experts 'failed to acknowledge' violent minority, Mind chief says

6 September 2026

Jo Grady, General Secretary UCU

Education / 7 September 2026

Fat-cat super-university bosses claim merger will help Neets crisis

7 September 2026

Dorothea Bate's blue plaque in her birth place in Carmarthen

Commemoration / 7 September 2026

Trailblazing female fossil hunter gets blue plaque

7 September 2026

NHS dentistry

Health / 7 September 2026

One in four of Scots NHS dentistry patients go more than five years without appointment, Labour says

7 September 2026

Wales energy costs

Cost of living / 7 September 2026

Welsh government launches consultation on community ownership of energy

7 September 2026

Health / 7 September 2026

Youngsters who avoid social media ban will hide concerns from adults, poll suggests

7 September 2026

Unions crash Reform party conference

Politics / 4 September 2026

Unions crash Reform Party conference as Farage’s inner circle suspended in fresh donations scandal

4 September 2026

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Miatta Fahnbulleh leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

Climate Crisis / 4 September 2026

Jackdaw gas field approval imminent: ministers urged not to cave to pressure

4 September 2026

Wildfire burning near Nethy Bridge in the Cairngorms National Park in northeast Scotland

Scotland / 4 September 2026

Scottish wildfires: SNP requested military support they knew didn't exist, Justice Secretary says

4 September 2026

Backdropped by an Israeli settlement, mourners attend the funeral of two Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces, September 3, 2026

Britain / 4 September 2026

HMRC threatened with legal action over illegal Israeli settlement trade

4 September 2026

Gas hob burning on a stove in a kitchen

Cost-of-Living Crisis / 4 September 2026

Gas price spike could further raise energy bills, households warned

4 September 2026

Students take part in a protest against tuition fees in central London.jpg

Education / 5 September 2026

Burnham urged to scrap tuition fees

5 September 2026

FOOD SHORTAGES EMPTY SHELVES SUPERMARKET

Britain / 4 September 2026

Government urged to protect Britain's food supply by public spending watchdog

4 September 2026

Police struggle to hold back hundreds of pickets as a worker's bus approaches the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, north London

Industrial / 4 September 2026

All welcome to Grunwick Strike 50th anniversary celebration

4 September 2026

FILE PICTURE: Andrew Tate is led away by police in the Ilfov

Crime / 4 September 2026

Andrew Tate indicted by Romanian prosecutors for trafficking minors

4 September 2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, September 1, 2026

World / 4 September 2026

Falklands tensions sees Miliband accused of ‘selective support’ for international law

4 September 2026

STEM SUBJECTS TECHNOLOGY breadboard circuit board

Education / 4 September 2026

Fall in STEM pass rates of ‘deep concern’, warns former headteacher

4 September 2026

US Embassy protest

Latin America / 4 September 2026

Cuba Solidarity Appeal raises more than half-a-million pounds

4 September 2026

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, speaks to the media outside the Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026

Politics / 3 September 2026

Polanski throws down gauntlet to Burnham

3 September 2026

Green Party leader confirms he is looking to fight Holborn and St Pancras by-election

A group of people thought to be migrants board a dinghy near the beach at Gravelines, France, June 17, 2025

Immigration / 3 September 2026

Calls for safe routes as Burnham discusses Macron ‘mega dinghies’ at No 10

3 September 2026

Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Kinnock (left) and Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrive for a visit to Tata Steel in Port Talbot, August 27, 2026

Climate Crisis / 3 September 2026

Senedd urged to make community ownership of renewable energy projects mandatory

3 September 2026

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth during a visit to NHS Fife's Hospital at Home hub for Central and West Fife in Kirkcaldy, September 2, 2026

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Greens accuse Scottish ministers of breaching own Israeli boycott

3 September 2026

General Secretary of the Unite the Union, Sharon Graham, speaks outside the Houses of Parliament in London, September 3, 2025

Industrial / 3 September 2026

Union leaders urge Institute for Cancer Research to resolve indefinite pay strike

3 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney speaking at Bute House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, August 28, 2026

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Swinney vows childcare overhaul to tackle poverty

3 September 2026

Trade unions protest against cuts in council jobs and services outside the City Chambers in George Square, Glasgow, February 14, 2024

Scotland / 3 September 2026

Glasgow City Council faces £110m black hole, says finance watchdog

3 September 2026

A Doctor holding a stethoscope at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool

Technology / 4 September 2026

Doctors warned AI medical notemakers miss ‘potentially vital’ patient gestures

4 September 2026

Reform UK Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick speaking during a press conference at Church House in central London, August 17, 2026

Austerity / 3 September 2026

Reform and Tories pledge attacks on welfare

3 September 2026

Colourful performers welcome visitors to the city over Manchester Pride Festival weekend, August 24, 2023

Industrial / 3 September 2026

Equity secures £15,000 for unpaid Manchester Pride performers

3 September 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives to cast his vote in the Clacton by-election in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, August 13, 2026

Politics / 3 September 2026

Reform handed further crypto boss mega-donation

3 September 2026

A Five Guys storefront in Bayswater, west London, January 15, 2026

Britain / 3 September 2026

B&Q and Five Guys among hundreds of firms fined for not paying minimum wage

3 September 2026

Home care

Wales / 3 September 2026

Private home care provider signs first union recognition deal in Wales

3 September 2026

A client orders an autonomous cab on his mobile phone as Uber officially launches the first hailable robotaxis in London

Transport / 3 September 2026

Public warned not to use driverless taxis as Uber launches rides in London

3 September 2026

SOCIAL JUSTICE CALL: Brian Leishman

Scotland / 2 September 2026

Leishman calls for a Labour route to independence referendum

2 September 2026

The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed

NHS Crisis / 2 September 2026

Most nurses have given end-of-life care in corridor, survey finds

2 September 2026

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during a visit to biotech company Ingenza, at the inGenius Building, Edinburgh Technopole, in Milton Bridge, Edinburgh, August 31, 2026

Austerity / 2 September 2026

Unions round on Swinney's NHS ‘slash and burn’ programme

2 September 2026

Family members wearing tributes to victims whilst attending a service of recognition, remembrance and reflection for members of the infected blood community, at St Paul's Cathedral, London, May 19, 2026

Healthcare / 2 September 2026

Infected blood victims urge Burnham to end compensation ‘injustices’

2 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his first Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 2, 2026

Economy / 2 September 2026

City piles pressure for cuts on Burnham

2 September 2026

PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending

Tributes, flowers and photographs laid by a plaque during the Covid-19 Day of Reflection memorial event at Glasgow Green, marking the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, March 9, 2025

Pandemic / 2 September 2026

Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry

2 September 2026

[Pic: Danie Franco / Creative Commons]

Healthcare / 2 September 2026

NHS shake-up will ‘mean nothing’ to those waiting on care, pensioners warn

2 September 2026