Hope, Again

Eight Papers Said "Scrapped." The Policy Says "Adjusted." The Bigger Change Came the Next Morning.

Andy Burnham gave his first Labour conference speech as leader and prime minister on Tuesday 29 September in Liverpool. He became leader on 17 July and prime...

Who's in Andy Burnham's new Labour cabinet?

An in-depth look at which Labour MPs have been appointed to cabinet roles by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham's crusade against neoliberalism

Unproductive, indebted and internationally uncompetitive, Britain is caught in a savage economic bind

Trapped inside the Blair Rich Project

The media coverage of Tony Blair's essay on what the UK government should do treats him as a statesman rather than the salesman he really is...

Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops

Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of 'solar zealots' and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride

Andy Burnham will be Britain’s seventh leader in a decade. Can he buck the trend? | CNN

Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the new leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party and will become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade of extraordinary political instability when he succeeds Keir Starmer on Monday.

Builders Club Makes Building Better · Waterloo

Develop the judgment, relationships, and momentum to turn ambitious ideas into real things at Builders Club in Waterloo.

Andy Burnham says rejoining EU an option for the UK

Prime minister says ‘going all the way’ is an option as government reviews Britain’s relations with 27-country bloc

Britain’s new leader shifts power from Downing Street to Manchester with ‘No. 10 North’

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has shifted some of Britain's political power from London to Manchester with "No. 10 North."

Five takeaways from Andy Burnham's Labour conference speech

Big policy announcements and emotional moments as the prime minister delivers a speech to Labour's conference.

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Andy Burnham Faces Backlash Over Apparent Retreat From Donations Cap Pledge

Open letter says 'politics should not be for sale' as Government resists extending its £100,000 overseas-donor limit to UK voters

War and the lost generation of inventors

Large wars destroy not only lives and infrastructure but also the human capital that fuels long-term economic progress. This column presents new evidence from Britain that shows that communities that lost many young men in World War I experienced persistent declines in subsequent innovation. The losses were particularly detrimental for frontier technologies and breakthrough inventions, highlighting how war can leave long-lasting scars on a country’s capacity to generate new ideas.

‘King of the North’ Andy Burnham becomes 7th British prime minister in a decade

Burnham was formally appointed leader Monday after meeting with King Charles III, following Keir Starmer’s decision to step down.