In one of his first moves as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has announced that VAT will be cut from household electricity bills, as part of his pledge to help ...

Last week Badenoch wrote to the prime minister saying he should rule out tax rises or increased borrowing to fund social care reform.A Conservative spokesman said Andrew would attend ...

Children should be given a clearer pathway into work from the age of 14, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said as he unveils reforms that will allow pupils in ...

Burnham was officially declared as the new Labour Party leader on Friday following a short contest in which he was the only candidate, having secured the backing of 379 ...

"This reprioritisation of public resource shows a change in direction towards improving everyday life and strengthening local economies over expensive national government schemes."Plans for a digital ID scheme had ...

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told.The Labour Party's ...

The social care system in England - which is delivered mainly by independent providers rather than the NHS - is widely perceived as underfunded and unfair.Public funding is means ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says Labour under an Andy Burnham government will be "faster and bolder".She was speaking after 322 Labour MPs nominated Burnham as their next leader, leaving ...

The Sunday Times leads on its report that Nigel Farage failed to disclose benefits provided by a convicted criminal in the year before he entered Parliament, external. The paper ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned his likely successor Andy Burnham will have to spend just as much time dealing with global turmoil as he has during his time in ...

It says this will be delivered through plans, among other things, to automate 20% of the MoD's human resources and finance departments by 2028 and by cutting spending on ...

Andy Burnham will give a major policy speech later, his first since launching a bid to become prime minister, in which he will announce plans for a "No 10 ...