Burnham says he ‘cannot launch management marketing campaign’ with out being MP
Burnham stated that he was not able to launch a management bid.
I can’t launch a management marketing campaign. I’m not in parliament. So that’s the backside line.
He additionally stated that it was a mistake to imagine that he was determined to return to London.
Within the early Nineteen Nineties he left the north and went to London as a result of that was what younger folks needed to do to get on. However that was not the case now, he stated. He stated folks must “wrench me out of the place” in the event that they needed him to go away Manchester.
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Emily Thornberry urges authorities to dam bid by Elon Musk’s Tesla to get licence to suppy electrical energy in UK
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Burnham (55) says he desires UK to rejoin EU in his lifetime
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Burnham says he desires outdated folks and disabled folks to have the ability to use ‘twirly’ bus go earlier than 9.30am
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Burnham says fiscal guidelines ought to be extra ‘versatile’, however strongly rejects declare he’s not fiscally accountable
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Burnham says he ‘cannot launch management marketing campaign’ with out being MP
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Burnham says his Telegraph interview that infuriated Labour MPs was ‘overwritten, and inaccurate in some respects’
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Burnham says Labour management is just too ‘factional’, claiming MPs by no means misplaced whip beneath Blair for coverage disagreements
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Andy Burnham in dialog with Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast
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Labour plans to seek the advice of on use of dwell facial recognition earlier than wider roll-out
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Reeves’ speech – snap verdict
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Reeves ends speech telling her occasion to ‘have religion’
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Reeves says Labour pushing for ‘bold’ youth mobility scheme with EU, giving ‘most’ opportunites to younger folks
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Reeves says Covid corruption comissioner has recovered nearly £400m misplaced throughout pandemic
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Reeves wins help of delegates as she hits again at pro-Gaza heckler, saying Labour now not occasion of protest
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Labour ‘selected funding’ when it took workplace, Reeves says
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Why Scottish Labour’s leaders assume there may be path to victory in subsequent yr’s Holyrood elections
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Improvement minister Jenny Chapman says she’s ‘extremely fearful’ about illness breaking out in Gaza
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Elections guru John Curtice delivers grim prognosis for Labour, saying simply attacking Reform UK will not deliver restoration
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Lib Dems accuse Reeves of planning ‘£10bn stealth tax’ by extending threshold freeze
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‘That is genocide’, and ready for courtroom to substantiate that ‘too late’, says Unison’s Christine McAnea
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Labour activists urged to again movement saying Israel has dedicated genocide in Gaza
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Jackie Baillie tells Burnham to shelve management positioning, amid issues it is going to hurt Labour at Holyrood elections
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Reeves suggests large tax rises coming in funds, saying ‘world has modified’ and pledges made at CBI final yr now not apply
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Reeves performs down, however doesn’t deny, report saying Treasury expects tax should rise by £30bn in funds
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Reeves to induce enterprise leaders to withstand danger Reform UK poses to economic system
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Reeves says a lot of hypothesis about attainable tax rises in funds is ‘garbage’
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Reeves confirms she now not stands by pledge to CBI final yr about not coming again with extra tax rises
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Reeves says advantages invoice too excessive
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Reeves doesn’t dispute LBC presenter’s suggestion that Andy Burnham bond market feedback makes him ‘Trussesque’
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Reeves says folks can help racist coverage with out being racist, in reference to PM’s remark about Reform UK
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Reeves pushes again at options VAT might rise, saying dedication to not put it up nonetheless stands
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Reeves to pledge Youth Assure to ‘abolish’ unemployment for younger folks
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Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, claimed in his speech to the convention this morning that extra funding is coming to the UK as a result of Labour is in workplace. He stated:
Corporations who wouldn’t take a look at this nation 15 months in the past at the moment are investing in our future, our jobs, our folks.
So we welcome the investments of:
Microsoft – a £22bn funding, their largest ever into the UK;
Google – £5bn;
CoreWeave – £1.5bn;
Salesforce – £1.4bn into our nation.
And why are they coming right here?
They’re coming right here due to a Labour authorities.
Peter Kyle talking on the Labour convention this morning. {Photograph}: Jon Tremendous/APShare
The Palestine Youth Motion and London for a Free Palestine have claimed accountability after the pro-Palestine heckler interrupted Rachel Reeves’ speech this morning.
As PA Media stories, in line with the 2 teams, the activist, named “Sam P” stood up with a big Palestinian flag and stated: “Why is Britain nonetheless arming Israel?”
In an announcement issued by the protest teams following the disruption, the activist stated:
It’s insufferable to look at this British-backed genocide unfolding on our screens whereas Labour carries on with enterprise as regular.
We must always do no matter we are able to to push for an finish to the atrocities.
It’s understood the heckler was faraway from the corridor by safety and handed over to Merseyside police.
The heckler waving a Palestine flag who interrupted Rachel Reeves’ speech this morning. {Photograph}: Adam Vaughan/EPAShareAndy Burnham posing for {a photograph} with a girl and child on the Labour convention at the moment. {Photograph}: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesShare
Emily Thornberry urges authorities to dam bid by Elon Musk’s Tesla to get licence to suppy electrical energy in UK
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Helena Horton is a Guardian surroundings reporter.
Emily Thornberry, the chair of the international affairs choose committee had warned the federal government in opposition to permitting Elon Musk to have any management of the UK vitality grid.
Tesla has utilized to Ofgem for a licence to be allowed to produce electrical energy on to British houses. The applying went in throughout July.
Power secretary Ed Miliband yesterday refused to remark, saying “it’s a matter for the regulator”.
Nonetheless, Thornberry informed a Labour Local weather and Surroundings Discussion board occasion on the annual occasion convention that the federal government ought to be cautious about granting the applying as a result of it might be a nationwide safety risk.
She stated:
I might be very involved about about Elon Musk and about his motivations and what he may do to the nation. I feel that any choices that we might make about funding in infrastructure ought to be led first by the difficulty of safety.
So I do assume we must always have an extended, exhausting look whether or not it’s in our nation for somebody like Elon Musk to be allowed to put money into infrastructure within the UK.
Musk lately known as for the overthrow of the British authorities and was accused of inciting violence on UK’s streets at a current look at a far proper rally in Britain.
Thornberry added:
I feel it’s fairly attention-grabbing that the Chinese language received’t enable Teslas close to public buildings or authorities buildings as a result of they’re fearful about espionage.
She additionally stated that Keir Starmer ought to go to the Cop local weather change convention, and that he ought to let King Charles go to the summit in November.
She stated:
In six weeks time, I’m going to be going to Cop 30 in Belem, the place I’ll witness what it’s that governments at the moment are doing, and the federal government can have a possibility there to exhibit the management relating to local weather change. This implies the senior leaders, and I hope that features the prime minister, will attend and interact.
I feel the King ought to in fact be allowed to go to Cop, I’m positive he desires to go.
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Treasury minister Torsten Bell ruffled some feathers on Monday night time after mocking Lib Dem chief Ed Davey’s look. He stated:
What Britain must sort out Farage is a imaginative and prescient. And the imaginative and prescient they want will not be a fats bloke in a moist swimsuit which is what the Lib Dems have gotten to supply Britain within the twenty first century.
A Lib Dem councillor in Liverpool, Carl Cashman, posted that it confirmed Labour have been “the nasty occasion”.
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Burnham (55) says he desires UK to rejoin EU in his lifetime
Burnham says he desires to see the UK rejoin the EU in lifetime.
He says:
I’m going to be sincere. I’m going to say I wish to rejoin. I hope, in my lifetime, I see this nation rejoining the European Union.
Burnham is 55. Keir Starmer, who’s 63, has stated he doesn’t anticipate the UK to rejoin in his lifetime.
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Burnham says he desires outdated folks and disabled folks to have the ability to use ‘twirly’ bus go earlier than 9.30am
Burnham says he’s eradicating the rule in Higher Manchester saying older folks’s bus passes and disabled folks’s bus passes can’t be used earlier than 9.30am.
He says within the metropolis these passes are generally known as twirly bus passes, due to when drivers have to inform folks, “Sorry, you’re too early.”
He says there are financial benefis from folks being about to make use of public transport. And he cites this for example of how, as mayor, he could make constructive adjustments on account of having management of the bus community.
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Burnham says fiscal guidelines ought to be extra ‘versatile’, however strongly rejects declare he’s not fiscally accountable
Pippa Crerar stated she had been asking cupboard ministers for questions for Burnham, and her first one was, would he keep on with the fiscal guidelines?
Burnham replied:
Sure, I might. You want sturdy fiscal guidelines. Nevertheless it doesn’t imply in precisely their present kind, is what I might say.
Burnham stated that generally it may be prudent to speculate, to decrease present spending. So there ought to be a “extra versatile” strategy. However he would preserve guidelines.
There’s nothing about me that’s saying I’ll simply throw the cash in every single place. And I might say to that member of the cupboard – and certainly, any member of the cupboard – look what I’ve executed to Higher Manchester. In a decade. I’ve been overseeing the funds of the nation’s second metropolis, first metropolis, I imply. It’s fairly, fairly buoyant.
He additionally identified that he was a former chief secretary to the Treasury.
UPDATE: Burnham stated:
I reject solely this concept that I’m form of hopeless and I’ve no thought about how you can make it add up.
I’m doing it every single day in Higher Manchester. No-one ever says Higher Manchester is run in a financially imprudent approach.
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Burnham says he ‘cannot launch management marketing campaign’ with out being MP
Burnham stated that he was not able to launch a management bid.
I can’t launch a management marketing campaign. I’m not in parliament. So that’s the backside line.
He additionally stated that it was a mistake to imagine that he was determined to return to London.
Within the early Nineteen Nineties he left the north and went to London as a result of that was what younger folks needed to do to get on. However that was not the case now, he stated. He stated folks must “wrench me out of the place” in the event that they needed him to go away Manchester.
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Burnham says his Telegraph interview that infuriated Labour MPs was ‘overwritten, and inaccurate in some respects’
Final week Burnham gave an interview to the Day by day Telegraph that was headlined: Andy Burnham: MPs need me to problem Starmer. That infuriated Keir Starmer’s allies greater than something. An interview revealed the day gone by within the New Statesman was seen as unhelpful, however the Telegraph interview prompted Starmer loyalists to launch a full-on briefing battle in opposition to him.
Burnham stated the interview was “overwritten, and inaccurate in some respects”.
He stated that, whereas he informed the Telegraph that Labour MPs had been in contact with him over the summer time, he didn’t say they have been urging him to run for Labour chief. He stated he didn’t focus on with the Telegraph what these MPs have been saying.
(Burnham didn’t say that the Telegraph was fallacious concerning the contents of these calls; simply that it was fallacious to say he had revealed all to the Telegraph.)
He went on:
[The Telegraph] stated I might borrow £40bn extra. I stated no such factor. No such factor in any respect.
Burnham stated the purpose he was making was that, of the £39bn allotted within the spending evaluate for housing, he needed all of it to be allotted to social and council housing.
In a paragraph about Burnham’s plans, the Telegraph stated that he needed “£40bn of borrowing to construct council homes”. The article didn’t embrace a quote to again this up.
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Burnham says Labour management is just too ‘factional’, claiming MPs by no means misplaced whip beneath Blair for coverage disagreements
The Guardian podcast with Andy Burnham has began.
Requested what he would say to individuals who say he’s selling his management ambitions, Burnham says all he has been doing is beginning a debate.
He says, when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been main the Labour occasion, he can’t recall anybody having the whip withdrawn for disagreements over coverage.
He says, if the occasion is being run in a “factional” approach, the occasion won’t be able to profit from having a variety of voices working collectively.
Andy Burnham (left), with Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey {Photograph}: GuardianShare
Most cupboard ministers talking on the Labour convention have handled Reform UK as their essential opponents, whereas Rachel Reeves spoke extra concerning the Conservatives.
In his speech to the convention this morning, John Healey, the defence secretary, attacked all the principle opposition events. He stated:
You understand, convention, who received’t again defence jobs? The Scottish nationalists.
They refused to fund a brand new superior welding centre in Glasgow, so I can announce at the moment that the Labour authorities now will step in and supply the funding wanted – they received’t, we’ll.
And what of the opposite events? Are they any higher on defence?
The Tories – they left our armed forces hollowed out and underfunded.
The Lib Dems – they lower the scale of the British Military to its smallest since Napoleon.
And Reform – they reward [Vladimir] Putin they usually put down Nato. Convention, we’re the occasion that created Nato in that nice [Clement] Attlee authorities after the battle.
Now, we’re the occasion rising jobs and rising the military, the occasion dealing with down Russia and strengthening Nato. Convention, Labour is once more the occasion of Britain’s defence.
John Healey talking on the convention this morning. {Photograph}: Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesShare
Andy Burnham in dialog with Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast
Andy Burnham will shortly be participating in a dwell Q&A interview with the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast, on the Labour convention. Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey are internet hosting it.
There’s a dwell feed right here.
Andy Burnham in dialog with the Politics Weekly podcast – watch dwellShare
Labour plans to seek the advice of on use of dwell facial recognition earlier than wider roll-out
Labour plans to seek the advice of on using dwell facial recognition (LFR) expertise earlier than increasing it throughout England, the brand new policing minister has informed the occasion’s annual convention, Rajeev Syal stories.
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Reeves’ speech – snap verdict
In 2021, in her first speech to a Labour convention as shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves introduced a plan to spend £28bn a yr on a inexperienced jobs plan. That’s the form of large, muscular, consequential intervention {that a} Labour convention desires to listen to. At that stage the UK was already chin-deep in Covid debt, however there was nonetheless an optimism the financial prospects for the second half of the last decade. 4 years on, what was placing about Rachel Reeves’ second speech as chancellor to a Labour convention as chancellor was fairly how little she needed to announce.
There may be an apparent cause for that, in fact, and in case your officers are telling you that you just’ll have to raised taxes by £30bn (see 10am), a Gordon Brown-style funding splurge will not be an possibility. As an alternative we obtained an announcement concerning the Youth Assure (see 7.44am), libraries for major faculties (see 12.14pm) and a youth mobility scheme with the EU (see 12.41pm). All nice, however none of those are the form of large ticket announcement you’ll get in a chancellor’s convention speech within the glory when Britain was not having to spent £100bn a yr paying off debt curiosity. And, given the federal government spent the primary few months of the yr saying it had “no plans” for a youth mobility scheme, some scepticism about how bold this will likely be might be justified.
As an alternative, Reeves needed to make an impression together with her argument, and she or he did this gorgeous effectively. The speech was obtained enthusiastically within the corridor. The chancellor talked at size about what the federal government has already achieved, and constructing initiatives which are going forward as a result of she has prioritised funding. She was sturdy in defence of her fiscal guidelines, and her perception within the want for controls on borrowing. (See 12.29pm.) This passage amounted to an implied rebuke Andy Burnham, however with out being it being personalised or antagonistic. And her essential goal was the Conservative occasion. Different audio system at this convention have been specializing in Reform UK, however Reeves has most likely spent extra time than anybody else pondering why her financial consequence is so dire and that’s one space the place it’s more durable guilty Reform UK.
She additionally responded effectively to the heckle. The protest appeared a bit half-hearted, however Reeves hit again with a model of the retort that Keir Starmer used when he confronted heckler sabotage in his speech in 2021 and it labored. She had the viewers on her facet – at this second, and till she completed. She might not have had an enormous quantity to supply them past “religion” (see 12.46pm) however within the corridor it was sufficient.
Rachel Reeves talking at Labour’s convention. {Photograph}: James McCauley/ShutterstockShare
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Reeves ends speech telling her occasion to ‘have religion’
Reeves appears to be wrapping up now.
No matter exams confront us, have religion as a result of our occasion and our nation have overcome higher challenges than these.
Have religion, as a result of the chance to serve [John Smith’s famous phrase] is what we got here into this for.
Have religion, realizing that this Labour authorities won’t relaxation – I cannot relaxation – till our patriotic trigger is realised in a Britain that prizes contribution, that unlocks alternative, that silences the nagging voices of decline.
And by no means let anybody inform you that there’s no distinction between a Labour authorities and a Conservative authorities.
Reeves says a “higher Britain” is inside attain, “a Britain the place the boundaries to alternative are torn asunder, a Britain capable of look outwards with confidence, defiant in an unsure world, powered by the contribution of its folks, looking forward to our shared future, a proud Britain, a affluent Britain, a Labour Britain”.
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