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Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader and Is Set to Be UK Prime Minister: Live Updates – The New York Times
- Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader and Is Set to Be UK Prime Minister: Live Updates The New York Times
- From mayor to U.K. PM: Inside Andy Burnham's swift ascent Axios
- Andy Burnham to become U.K.'s prime minister Monday after being declared Labour Party leader CBS News
- Andy Burnham to become Labour leader and will promise to 'fix things politics has neglected' BBC
- Opinion | The King of the North, Andy Burnham, Won’t Save Britain The New York Times
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Iran war live: Tanker seized off Yemen in ‘pirate hijacking’ – The Independent
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Democrats criticize Trump’s claims of election interference – US politics live
Virginia’s Mark Warner says speech was ‘just lies and long-debunked conspiracies’
Several major networks declined to air Donald Trump’s primetime televised address on Thursday, citing concerns that the content could be politically partisan or inflammatory.
CNN, ABC and NBC chose not to air the speech live, but CBS, Fox News and MS Now (formerly MSNBC) aired at least large portions of the speech live. Some ABC station station affiliates – including the Washington DC station owned by right-leaning broadcaster Sinclair – also chose to air the speech.
Continue reading...Burnham to say his government will be ‘unashamedly Labour’ in first speech as party leader – UK politics live
‘Special conference’ to take place at noon where Burnham will be formally announced as Labour leader
It looks as if Keir Starmer has started moving out. A removals van has been seen at the back of Downing Street.
The Telegraph live blog is normally a pretty good read (although not as good as ours, obviously). But today Andy Burnham may want to give it a miss. At the Telegraph they don’t seem very enthusiastic about a Burnham premiership, and here is a selection of the blog headlines: ‘Burnham is coming for your home’; Burnham could crash the economy, claims Truss; Burnham accused of ‘waving away’ scrutiny on path to power; ‘Burnham is already a global laughing stock’.
The new Labour leader will say that ‘Britain took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s’ when ‘political power was centralised and economic power privatised’. To build an economy and a country that works for all people and places, Andy will say that it requires ‘a new path to the one we’ve been on for the last 40 years’.
Continue reading...World Cup third-place playoff: What are France and England playing for?
Didier Deschamps takes charge of Les Bleus for the final time while Kylian Mbappe is chasing individual history.