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?
SKY NEWS announced it was “following the money” with in-depth reporting of the finance flowing around our MPs. It was a good start, but for all the graphs and databases, it kept following the money half way, then stopping.
To take one small example, Public Policy Projects calls itself “an independent policy institute committed to global public policy reform.”
But it isn’t independent: Public Policy Projects is funded by corporations, using the money to hire Tory MPs to help them influence government policy and public procurement.
A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES



