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It’s people, not planes needed for wildfires
ANDY BURNHAM was warned that AI and military helicopters alone will not keep the public safe after he hosted Google, Airbus and Vodafone chiefs at Britain’s first wildfire summit yesterday. The PM faced fresh calls to reverse thousands of Tory...
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DON’T LET RUSH TO CLOSE HOTELS HIT KIDS’ EDUCATION
MORE than 1,000 child refugees risk having their education sacrificed by the rushed closure of asylum hotels, a coalition of charities warned yesterday. More than a fifth of the 255 refugees housed in two Stockport hotels that are due to close this...
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Cheers and fears as Jackdaw is cleared
ANDY BURNHAM’s government has been accused of “supercharging the climate chaos” with the approval of Jackdaw gas field 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen. Despite having voiced concerns over the scheme in opposition, Energy Security and Net Zero...
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BURNHAM BLOCKS CORBYN GAZA BID
LABOUR has refused to hold an official public inquiry into Britain’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza, it emerged yesterday. Campaigners immediately asked what the government was trying to hide. The demand for an inquiry has been pushed by former...
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DON’T DUMP KIDS IN DEAD-END JOBS, BURNHAM WARNED
WRONG DIRECTION? ANDY BURNHAM was warned against pushing young people into “any job available” yesterday after he pledged “big changes” to reduce the welfare bill yesterday. Britain’s largest Civil Service union has warned the Prime Minster that...
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WE’RE ALL PAYING A HIGH PRICE FOR FORCED LABOUR
BRITAIN’S reliance on supply chains linked to serious labour exploitation and environmental harm costs £4.4 billion annually — 10 times more than preventing it, new research by the Fabian Society has found. Ministers were urged to introduce new laws...
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TAX ’EM TILL THE PIPS SQUEAK MR HEALEY
LABOUR faced increasing pressure yesterday to announce a more than 10-fold tax hike on banking profits to at least 35 per cent in this month’s Budget. Unions, the Green Party and left campaign groups urged Chancellor John Healey to bring the surcharge...
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BUDGET ‘MUST CUT BRITS’ BILLS AND TAX THE BANKS’
LABOUR was urged to go further stamping out in-work poverty yesterday after TUC analysis showed households have paid nearly £14,000 extra on bills since 2021 amid soaring inflation. The union federation called on Chancellor John Healey to tackle...
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END NEOLIBERALISM? NOW’S YOUR CHANCE
LEFT MPs have urged Andy Burnham to stick to his pledge to reverse neoliberalism as signs multiplied that the upcoming Budget will be tailored to business demands. They spoke out after reports that Mr Burnham had told bosses at a Downing Street...
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DEBT TRAP
PRECARIOUS low-paid jobs are pushing millions of people into debt and forcing them to use foodbanks, according to a new report, in what union leaders have called a “national scandal.” Citizens Advice said it had discovered the shocking scale of...
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£35BN HOLE IN HEALEY’S BUDGET BID
BRITISH households are set to face a sharper rise in inflation than previously forecast, as the US-Israel war on the Middle East propels food and energy costs higher, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. Britain’s growth is also expected...
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COUPLE LEADS WAY ON DAY OF LOVE AND WAR
NEWLYWEDS became one of the most famous couples in the world after capturing their special moment at the national march for Palestine in London on Saturday. An estimated 250,000 people attending the solidarity demonstration paused at Westminster...
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Labour on notice but Polanski falls short in Holborn
LABOUR was warned it could face “far more concerted” action from the left after seeing off the Greens to win the Holborn & St Pancras by-election yesterday. Green Party leader Zack Polanski faced calls to resign following local council leader Sagal...
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END THE HATE
RACIST hate crimes have reached record highs amid an “unprecedented” rise in attacks on mosques that are increasingly “targeting the Muslims inside.” Home Office figures yesterday revealed a 7 per cent annual rise in racially and religiously motivated...
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BRING AN END TO 5 YEARS OF CRISIS
ANDY BURNHAM has been urged to deliver the “circuit breaker” Britain needs after a think tank revealed five years of the cost-of-living crisis has left families nearly £3,000 worse off. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on the Prime Minister to...
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THREE YEARS INTO GENOCIDE, BRITAIN STILL HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS
PALESTINIANS and Israelis today mark three years since the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 2023. During the attack, 1,221 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip has...
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GOOD RIDDANCE
ANTI-WAR campaigners have called for the further removal of US militarism from Britain after the country’s bombers were withdrawn from RAF Fairford. Downing Street insisted the site remains safe following the withdrawal, despite initial reports...
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‘DON’T FEED FASCIST FIRE’
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham said that PM Andy Burnham risks fuelling a “fascist fire” by removing the pension triple lock as thousands commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street yesterday. Unions have criticised the...
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THEY DID NOT PASS
Ninety years ago Mosley’s blackshirts planned to march through the heart of Jewish east London. Jewish families, Irish dockers, communists, socialists, anarchists and trade unLonLsts EuLlt EarrLcades and filled the streets. The march through the East...
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40 PROTESTS TO TELL PALANTIR: HANDS OFF NHS
PATIENTS, health workers, and members of the public gathered in more than 40 protests across England yesterday to demand an end to spy tech firm Palantir’s role in the NHS. In London, protesters converged on Palantir’s headquarters to hand in a giant...
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ENERGY FIRMS WILL MAKE A KILLING OUT OF HUGE PRICE HIKE
CAMPAIGNERS and unions have demanded the government cap killer energy prices amid predictions of a 16 per cent hike in fuel bills in the new year. The demand came as a 4 per cent increase to energy regulator Ofgem’s price cap kicks in today —...
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Burnham: Change is coming — but just not yet
ANDY BURNHAM pledged to move Britain beyond “a decade of drift and division” in a mixed-message Labour conference speech breaking with the Starmer legacy but falling short of sweeping change. Proposals included introducing a national care service...
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Miliband’s admission to conference over Palestine solidarity: YOU WERE RIGHT
YOU were right, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the Palestine solidarity movement yesterday. Trying to draw a line under the most obnoxious aspect of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of Labour, Mr Miliband won an emotional ovation from Labour...
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IS MARGARET 94, REALLY A, TERRORIST?
ANDY BURNHAM faced growing calls to deproscribe Palestine Action yesterday as hundreds of protesters as old as 94 were arrested for supporting the banned group during his first Labour Party conference as PM. Scores of police hauled away more than 230...
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PRIVATEERS ARE POCKETING £6BN OF PUBLIC’S CASH
OUTSOURCING companies extracted £6 billion in profits from public services last year, while more than one million workers are employed in the outsourced “para-state” on low pay and poor working conditions, a damning report has found. The study, from...
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BLIGHT OF FOREVER CHEMICALS
LABOUR faced lobbying concerns and calls for a halt on new AI data centres yesterday after “really high levels” of cancer-causing forever chemicals were found in people living near a chemical factory. Blood tests paid for by investigative journalists...
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LET THEM GO BUST
ANDY BURNHAM has been urged to ditch his “worse than useless” plans to create regional water boards and commit to fully renationalising Thames Water, energy companies and the Royal Mail. The Prime Minister is reportedly looking at how to use...
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‘MAKE SHELL PAY FOR HEATWAVES THEY’VE CAUSED’
ANDY BURNHAM faced fresh calls yesterday to make oil giants pay communities compensation for extreme weather as new research suggests Shell’s pollution is responsible for nearly a quarter of global heatwaves. Analysis by campaigners suing the oil and...
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SPY INQUIRY RISKS ‘RIGGED’ CUT-OFF, SAY CAMPAIGNERS
EXCLUSIVE MINISTERS were warned against “brazenly hypocritical” attempts to use the Hillsborough Law as the Home Office’s “rigged” consultation into the spycops inquiry concluded last night. Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside Kim Johnson and the...
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SPIED ON BY COPS, NOW LOCKED OUT BY GOVERNMENT
THE Home Office was locked down yesterday as core participants to the Spycops inquiry accused the department of a “state cover-up.” Victims who were duped into relationships with undercover police officers were in a standoff with security for about an...
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GIVE BRITS A BUDGET FOR RADICAL CHANGE
BATTLE has been joined over the shape of Labour’s next Budget as Britain’s economy continues to struggle. Union leaders were set to meet new Chancellor John Healey as he prepares his first Budget, to be delivered next month, and to press for a radical...
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WE STAND WITH CUBA
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress gave a standing ovation to Cuban trade union federation leader Osnay Miguel Colina yesterday and demanded an end to US aggression against the island. Mr Miguel Colina told Congress the Cuban people would never surrender...
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STRIKE TOGETHER FOR BETTER PAY
UNIONS formally backed plans to strike together for better public-sector pay at TUC Congress yesterday. Delegates warned PM Andy Burnham’s new leadership “means nothing” while millions of NHS, local government and school workers and their communities...
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Farage will sell us all out — Nowak
STOP the super-rich from corrupting our politics, unions demanded yesterday as peers considered new restrictions on overseas donors after Reform UK was handed £72 million in just two days. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage acknowledged the twin £36m gifts...
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NOWAK: MAKE THE RICH PAY!
UNIONS will agree on the best economic roadmap for Britain at TUC Congress today, piling pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce wealth taxes and reject “baseless myths” over an upcoming zero-hour contracts ban. Speaking to the Morning...
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RECLAIM OUR CITY FROM FAR RIGHT
ANTI-RACISM campaigners are set to “reclaim Portsmouth from the far right” today as they called for an end to the scapegoating of the “world’s most vulnerable people.” Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) Portsmouth urged everyone in the city who is sickened by...
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CALL TO ACTION ON RISING VIOLENCE OF ‘PROTO-FASCISTS’
MORE than 150 organisations including unions, charities and campaign groups have called on the government to “act immediately” over the rise in racist violence. Anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth saw masked, blackclad men from the “Patriot...
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MILIBAND STANDS GROUND
BRITAIN is proud to be leading the way in challenging the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs yesterday. Speaking in the Commons a day after Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband had announced sweeping sanctions against...
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AT LAST – LABOUR TAKES ACTION ON THE OCCUPATION
LABOUR finally got serious about tackling Israeli aggression yesterday as new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a landmark ban on trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank. He also made a government acknowledgement — “overdue,” as he...
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HEALEY’S GROWTH PLAN? JUST MORE DEREGULATION
CHANCELLOR John Healey was warned against pinning hopes for economic growth on deregulation following his first major speech since taking over the Treasury yesterday. He promised to “draw a line” under rising costs for businesses and end legal...
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‘NO BAILOUTS’ AS 4,000 JOBS FACE THE SCRAPHEAP
UNITE vowed to leave no stone unturned while 4,000 Jaguar Land Rover jobs hang in the balance as the government ruled out a bailout ahead of a crunch meeting with bosses tomorrow. Britain’s largest car manufacturer is expected to formally announce a...
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DONOR STING ROCKS ROTTEN REFORM
UNIONS crashed Reform UK’s party conference yesterday slamming the hard-right outfit for its “undeclared cronyism” after it was hit with another donations scandal. The TUC held a demonstration outside the conference in Birmingham where protesters...
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Polanski challenge a headache for PM
GREEN Party leader Zack Polanski has confirmed he is looking to fight the Holborn and St Pancras by-election in the first major political challenge to new premier Andy Burnham. His candidacy — which requires endorsement by local party members — will...
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BOND MARKETS PILE UP PRESSURE ON PM BURNHAM
BOND markets piled pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham yesterday as government borrowing costs rose ahead of his first Budget. The City and big business are now mobilising to discipline the new government and keep it in line with Treasury economic...
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PM BURNHAM SETS OUT VISION — BUT SKIMPS ON DETAIL
ANDY BURNHAM pledged to “bring back hope” yesterday in his first Commons address since becoming Prime Minister. Demarcating his approach from the gloom-laden approach of his predecessor, Mr Burnham was relentlessly upbeat in a message to MPs that was...
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INSOURCE NOW!
UNIONS say Labour is failing to tackle the outsourcing “scourge” as new analysis today reveals spending on private contracts has soared since it took power. The value of outsourced contracts awarded or renewed for “soft facilities” management,...
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‘MINORITIES LEFT WITH NO CHOICE BUT TO DIE’
GIVE black and brown disabled people “quality of life rather than feeling they have no choice but to die,” MPs were told yesterday after research found ethnic minorities would be more likely to opt for assisted suicide. Trade unionists, community...
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SEARCH GOES ON FOR FLOODS SURVIVORS
RESCUE teams continued the search yesterday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic torrent of floods and mud swept through communities a day earlier. The disaster left at least 359 people dead and more than...
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HAMMER BLOW AS ENERGY BILLS HIT THREE-YEAR HIGH
HOUSEHOLD energy bills will hit a three-year high in yet “another nail in the coffin” for budgets after Ofgem announced a 4 per cent rise from October. The regulator confirmed yesterday that gas unit rates are set to rise from 6.29p per kWh last...
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A CAPITULATION TO LANDLORD CLASS
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Andy Burnham yesterday for betraying his own promises in “a major capitulation to the housing market and the landlord class.” The Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) hit back at the Prime Minister’s decision to break a prior...
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BURNHAM BLASTED FOR MISSILE APPEAL
ANDY BURNHAM was accused of “utter subservience” to the EU military-industrial complex after he urged Ukraine’s allies to provide more Patriot interceptor missiles to the wartorn country yesterday. Chairing a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,”...
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VULNERABLE MOST AT RISK IF ENERGY RULES WEAKENED
BRITAIN’S energy watchdog has been warned against watering down consumer protection laws despite bill disputes soaring and households facing an eye-watering 4 per cent hike this week. Ofgem was urged not to green-light proposals to replace “clear,...
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PM TOLD: BAN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT GOODS AS ANOTHER TEEN KILLED
ANDY BURNHAM was urged to act on Israel as a 17-year-old Palestinian boy, Karim Shalaldeh, was shot dead after illegal settlers entered a West Bank village yesterday. The head of the foreign affairs select committee Dame Emily Thornberry called on the...
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MILIBAND CONDEMNS E1 LAND GRAB — BUT ISRAEL PRESSES ON
WORDS are not enough against all of Israel’s “atrocities,” campaigners warned yesterday after Ed Miliband criticised Tel Aviv’s new illegal settlement plans. The Foreign Secretary said Britain would not “stand back and accept the destruction of the...
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BILLS UP BY £221 AS WAR FUELS INFLATION SURGE
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham faced calls to bring energy companies under public control after he blamed the US-Israeli war on Iran for inflation surging to a four-month high yesterday. Unite led calls for profiteering fossil fuel firms to be brought to...
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A NATION DIVIDED
LOWER energy use figures mask a nation divided between energy savers and energy strugglers, campaigners have warned, as new data reveals how households are responding to rising costs. Since 2023, 36 per cent of the public have taken energy efficiency...
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BURNHAM UNDER PRESSURE TO AXE ROSEBANK PLANS
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham was urged to stand up to profiteering fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil field as consultations on them drew to a close yesterday. Labour faces a key environmental test as the final...
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REFORM’S £50bn WAR ON NEEDY
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Reform UK for its “complete lack of understanding” of the benefits system as the hardright party vowed to slash welfare for foreign nationals and almost three million disabled people. A Nigel Farage-led government would cut £50...
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‘STOP US BOMBERS USING OUR BASES’
WORKERS and campaigners are demanding Andy Burnham put an end to US President Donald Trump’s use of British bases for his war on Iran. Activists from around the country are to gather at RAF Fairford today to tell the new Prime Minister to break from...
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BILL-PAYERS VS BILLIONAIRES
ENERGY firms raked in an excess of £6 billion in Iran war windfall profits this year, it was revealed today as households brace for yet another bill rise at the end of the month. Campaigners said profits generated in Britain by these companies equate...
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100 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY: FROM HAVANA TO LONDON
DIPLOMATS, activists and trade unionists will rally today in London and around the world in honour of Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday. Tributes have flooded in for the Cuban revolutionary leader, who liberated his country from the Batista dictatorship...
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HEAT STRIKE
PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists yesterday, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s warmest on record. The Heat Strike campaign...
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£1m for water boss as Britain runs dry
CAMPAIGNERS demanded the government take back control of debt-ridden Thames Water after its “indefensible” decision to give a £1 million golden handshake to its finance chief amid likely drought conditions in large parts of the country. Britain’s...
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MILLIONS SUFFER COSTS OF GREED
THE cost of greed has left almost two million households in Britain unable afford enough food for everyone in their home and more than eight million who would be unable to cope with an emergency £850 bill, new figures suggest. Research carried out for...
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THUGS CARRY OUT A ‘RACIST POGROM’
A “RACIST pogrom” in Thetford has seen thugs storm homes they suspect of housing refugees and attack police, an anti-racist group warned yesterday. Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the...
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ACT NOW OR FACE FURY OVER FILTHY RIVERS, PM TOLD
ANYTHING less than a full restructure of the water industry would be a “total insult” to the public, ministers were warned yesterday as the majority of English waters failed to meet ecological standards. Clean water campaigners and the GMB demanded PM...
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‘Hundreds’ more charities funding Israeli settlers
THE charity watchdog must go further and investigate the “hundreds more British charities” funding Israeli settlements in Palestine, campaigners said after it launched an inquiry into eight organisations yesterday. Charity Commission investigators...
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OIL PROFITS SO OBSCENE EVEN TRUMP SAYS IT IS TOO MUCH
BP profits have more than doubled as the Iran war sends prices soaring, seeing the world’s five leading oil “supermajors” rake in a total $48 billion (£35.7bn) in the second quarter of 2026. The oil giant reported its highest quarterly profits, seeing...
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BURNHAM BACKS SAFE ROUTES
ANDY BURNHAM was urged to work with the Border Force union and refugee charities yesterday after he became the first British Prime Minister to publicly back tackling Channel boat crossings by creating safe routes for migrants. The Labour leader...
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PEACE WON’T LAST WHILE US STAYS IN MID EAST
ACTIVISTS yesterday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s claims of an outline deal with Iran yesterday — but warned there can be no lasting peace in the Middle East while the US military maintains such a huge presence there. Mr Trump said yesterday...
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MAKE THEM PAY
MOST Britons believe fossil fuel companies should compensate communities after extreme weather destroys their homes or livelihoods, a poll showed yesterday. The findings were released as a Suffolk wildfire near Britain’s biggest nuclear power station...
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INVEST IN PEOPLE NOT IN WARFARE
ANDY BURNHAM was told yesterday to invest in people, not war, as he committed his government to blowing billions of pounds on nuclear weapons. The new Prime Minister visited Barrow-in-Furness to pledge his loyalty to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons...
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PM’S PROMISE TO GRASP NETTLE ON SOCIAL CARE
ACTION to end the social care crisis must finally be taken, Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged yesterday, announcing an outline commitment to a national care service. Continuing his run of significant early initiatives, Mr Burnham announced the...
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END 40 YEARS OF CARE NEGLECT
ANDY BURNHAM was urged yesterday to keep his vow to abandon 40 years of neoliberalism by legislating for a national care service before the end of this parliament. Health experts, campaigners and unions called on the Prime Minister to prioritise...
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SHUT DOWN THE BASES
ANTI-WAR protesters have gathered outside RAF Fairford to call on PM Andy Burnham to do the “right thing” and withdraw the use of British military bases from the US war with Iran. Demonstrators from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and...
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