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Burnham to start dismantling triple lock before election

  No 10 reveals plan for MPs to vote on policy during this parliament, despite Prime Minister pledging to keep it until 2030 Daily Telegraph 02/10/26 Andy Burnham plans to pass a law scrapping the triple lock before the next election. Despite the Prime Minister having previously said the policy would remain in its current form until 2030, No 10 has said MPs will vote on plans to reform it before the election. Mr Burnham announced his intention to abandon the commitment to link state pension rises to inflation, earnings or 2.5 per cent to fund free social care in his speech at Labour Conference on Tuesday. He pledged to end the triple lock following the next election, set to take place in 2029, at which point he would adjust it. But No 10 has now said the Government willThe announcement sets up a divisive debate in Parliament on the issue, and also means the next election will be a fight over whether other parties would keep Labour’s changes to the triple lock in place. Helen Wh...
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Labour has fallen down the mother of all rabbit holes

Beneath the performative radicalism, the party has nothing to offer but empty promises and technocratic bungling Daily Telegraph 30/06/26 A strange paradox has loomed over Labour’s party conference in Liverpool. On the one hand, the event has carried an air of triumph and vindication. The PM’s fans have been singing “Burnham Baby Burnham” to the “Disco Inferno” tune while queuing for their coffees in the arena. Outside, the loud speakers have been playing the Game of Thrones soundtrack on loop to fete the King of the North. On the other hand, considering that the party finds itself with a brand new leader, the atmosphere has at times felt oddly subdued. True, I came across pockets of exuberant energy. Placard-wielding activists have been out in force, campaigning for everything from the liberation of Lucy Letby to the pedestrianisation of the M6. The book corner has been packed with people poring over Andy Burnham’s tome Head North and Adam Rutherford’s How to Argue with a Racist . ...
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There’s no money left, Healey is right there

  The Chancellor might want people to hear the truth, but few in his party are listening Daily Telegraph Published 28 September 2026 6:28pm BST When politicians say they intend to level with the British people you can be pretty certain they will do nothing of the kind. In his Liverpool conference speech John Healey, the Chancellor, mainly indulged in the usual misty-eyed socialist whimsy and empty sloganising often associated with such events. However, he did have one home truth to vouchsafe to Labour delegates: we don’t have any money. He recalled how he was in the Treasury when Gordon Brown was chancellor, the economy was booming and there was cash to spend. This is not the case now, he said. The nation’s £3tn debt is almost 100 per cent of GDP and more is spent on financing it than on defence, the Home Office and justice combined. Mr Healey sought to hold out the prospect of “hope again” – the conference slogan – but cautioned that this would have to be achieved within the conf...
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How Britain’s economy collapses, step by terrifying step

  How Britain’s economy collapses, step by terrifying step With huge national debt, the UK is dangerously exposed to our international lenders – which could bring about a nightmare scenario 329 Gift this article free Add us as preferred source The road to financial meltdown is too close for comfort Credit : CHUNYIP WONG Neil Record Show biography Published 28 September 2026 10:35am BST John Healey has an unenviable task on his hands. The size of it was underlined on Monday when the UK’s borrowing costs rose ahead of the Chancellor’s speech at the Labour conference . The truth is that the investors who fund Britain’s debt addiction are right to be wary. Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, insisted last week that the UK is “too exposed” to the bond markets, months after saying we were “in hock” to them. It is though his own words that have deepened that exposure. The PM’s implication in the Commons that social security was a higher priority than national security left investors very, ...
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