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Andy Burnham 17.7.26, the Labour leader who says he will end Thatcherism UK

Burnham hires men who administered Thatcherism

Burnham says he will end 40 years of Thatcherism, but keeps Reeves's fiscal rules, a corporate lobbyist as chief of…

18 July 2026
Rafael Mariano Grossi meeting Jacob Rees-Mogg, named in Rees-Mogg Toby Young Trump funding plans UK

Trump grants $12m to rees-mogg and Young

Trump's state department plans $12m in sole-source grants for groups run by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Toby Young and Matthew…

18 July 2026
British soldiers patrol a mud-walled compound beside an irrigation ditch in Afghanistan, as the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry hears evidence of SAS abuse. UK

SAS shot three Afghan farmers

Whistleblowers tell the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry that SAS troops threw shackled prisoners off forklifts for…

17 July 2026
The Millbank entrance archway of Thames House, MI5's London headquarters, subject of the MI5 neo-Nazi informant inquiry. UK

MI5 gave false evidence to three courts

An inquiry found MI5 gave three courts false evidence to protect a neo-Nazi informant who abused his partner, as…

17 July 2026
Official 2026 portrait of Andy Burnham Labour leader wearing glasses and a dark suit with maroon tie. UK

Working people get no say on seventh PM

Burnham takes No 10 with no public vote as market pressure over Ed Miliband hands the Treasury to Shabana Mahmood.

17 July 2026
Yvette Cooper, who defended RAF strikes Iran in her Commons statement, smiling in an official cabinet portrait, wearing a maroon jacket against a grey backdrop. UK

Fourteen dead from RAF-joined Iran strikes

Cooper told MPs the RAF flew 115 combat missions in Iran as the ceasefire collapsed and British food prices climbed.

16 July 2026
Scunthorpe Steelworks entrance road after British Steel nationalisation, with the plant's furnaces and gas holder visible in the background. UK

British Steel Nationalisation saves 2,700 jobs from private collapse

British Steel was nationalised on Thursday, ending fifteen months of uncertainty for 2,700 Scunthorpe steelworkers let…

16 July 2026
Exterior view of the Home Office building at Marsham Street, London, which ordered trafficking victims deported France despite a High Court ruling, with a Union Flag flying above the entrance. UK

Trafficking victims deported to France anyway

The Home Office plans to deport trafficking victims to France on Thursday, days after a court ruled the policy unlawful.

15 July 2026
Grenfell, near the Hillsborough law duty candour debate context. The Catholic Church bought this land in 1872 and operated a school on it. This fine Gothic Church was built in 1906. UK

Families’ 37-year Battle wins law state weakens

MPs passed the Hillsborough law duty of candour while MI5, Grenfell and spycops cover-ups carry on, and its own…

15 July 2026
A military jet taxis on the runway at RAF Lakenheath airfield, tied to the US military SOFA agreement justice row, seen from the public viewing area. UK

Girl, 16, denied British jury trial by US military

A Littleport teenager and four other women watched a US airman avoid a British jury for the second time in a fortnight…

13 July 2026
British Army soldiers testing Anduril drones drive Coyote tactical support vehicles across a muddy training ground. UK

Kill-chain software with 10% error rate now arms British Army

The British Army has wired an infantry battalion into a US billionaire's AI targeting system, the same company already…

13 July 2026
Nigel Farage in a suit and pink tie speaking at a podium with a microphone. UK

Police probe reform’s £500,000 from fraudster’s mother

Met launches a reform party donations investigation into £500,000 from a fraudster's mother, weeks before voters go to…

10 July 2026
Palestine Action and Youth Demand activists march through central London holding Ceasefire Now and Free Palestine placards. UK

3,300 Palestine arrests foreshadow Home Secretary’s new 14-year power

The National Security Bill clears Parliament naming Iran as its target, but the arrest data shows who these powers…

10 July 2026
Nigel Farage UK

Farage quits Clacton to escape donor audit

Farage quit as Clacton's MP to force a by-election, an attempt to face voters instead of the two donor investigations…

9 July 2026
A man consoles Chris Kaba's parents outside New Scotland Yard during a 2022 vigil for their son. UK

Chris Kaba shot: No charges

Chris Kaba's family have three weeks to appeal after the IOPC ruled out further action against the officer who shot him.

9 July 2026
A red-brick two-storey building with green signage and estate agent boards on a residential street corner. UK

PIP breaks disabled people, ministers know it

The government's own review found PIP 'breaks' disabled people, but ministers had already ruled out the one fix that…

9 July 2026
Nepotism plagues police: 87% say badly led UK

Nepotism plagues police: 87% say badly led

A government-backed report finds police leadership shaped by nepotism, with 87% of constables saying they are badly led.

6 July 2026
Money-launderer secretly funded Farage's operation UK

Money-launderer secretly funded Farage’s operation

A convicted fraudster secretly funded Nigel Farage's staff, security and housing before he became an MP, the Sunday…

6 July 2026
Seven pms, no votes: Burnham gets Number 10 UK

Seven PMs, no votes: Burnham gets Number 10

Britain is about to get its seventh prime minister in a decade with no vote, while the donor network and lobby-linked…

5 July 2026
Woman strangled; tried by US military UK

Woman strangled; tried by US military

Dr Sarah Steele was strangled by a US airman in Cambridge, but it was a court martial of his colleagues, not a British…

5 July 2026
Ireland, Scotland, Wales war-game UK breakup UK

Ireland, Scotland, Wales war-game UK breakup

Ireland, Scotland and Wales are quietly planning for a Reform UK government, as Belfast counts the cost of a politics…

5 July 2026
47,000 patients oppose Palantir NHS data deal UK

47,000 patients oppose Palantir NHS data deal

Palantir holds NHS patient records and a 'strategic partnership' with the Israeli military. Andy Burnham won't say what…

4 July 2026
Farage blocked digital pound for crypto billionaire UK

Farage blocked digital pound for crypto billionaire

A Labour MP has referred Farage to the standards watchdog over lobbying that helped his biggest donor's crypto fortune.

4 July 2026
Four jailed as terrorists; Starmer's law enables more UK

Four jailed as terrorists; Starmer’s law enables more

TITLE: Four jailed as terrorists, Starmer’s last bill targets journalists # TYPE: analysis # DESK: uk # REGISTER…

4 July 2026