‘Circuit breaker for Britain’: Read Andy Burnham’s first speech as Prime Minister in full
I have just come from Buckingham Palace, where I have accepted His Majesty the King’s invitation to form…
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Many on the left fear modernisation, but it is key to social justice and to winning
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