Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the political scene as budget rows take centre-stage and Welsh Labour gains a new leader

The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum

United Nations experts slam Britain for ‘perpetuating serious human rights violations’

Against the backdrop of the Durham Miners’ Gala, Matt Kerr talks to ANDY McDONALD MP about Labour’s mistakes, Burnham’s leadership and why raising living standards must come first

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

Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills

The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP

Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS

The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape

JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza

IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes

History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING

Government's plan means ‘extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals,’ Unison general secretary Andrea Egan warns

Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT

Incoming PM told to ‘stand up for the public, not shareholders around the world’

The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY

Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP

Labour peer Alf Dubs calls on incoming PM to country’s Britain's borders with a ‘commitment to basic rights, and compassion for those who are in time of greatest need’

PAUL O’BRIEN of Labour Movement for Irish Unity looks at the Makerfield MP’s record when it comes to the north of Ireland

The former Ofcom chair increasingly echoed the arguments of the broadcasters he was meant to regulate, says STEPHEN ARNELL

Repealing Britain’s most dangerous Bill must be the first act of whoever replaces Keir Starmer, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation

The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise

ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes