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Cut welfare and we’ll rebel, Labour MPs warn Burnham

  Left-wingers threaten repeat of benefits revolt that undermined Starmer Daily Telegraph 28/07/26 Labour MPs have threatened to rebel if Andy Burnham makes “punitive” cuts to welfare. The Prime Minister is planning to strip young people of their benefits unless they agree to do training or voluntary work under proposals to reduce the £333bn welfare bill. However, backbenchers on the party’s Left have warned Mr Burnham against repeating the “failed politics of welfare cuts” and signalled that they would oppose such a move. Sir Keir Starmer suffered a revolt by more than 120 of his MPs last year when he sought to tighten the rules around disability benefits to make fewer people eligible. Kim Johnson, the MP for Liverpool Riverside, and John McDonnell , Jeremy Corbyn’s former shadow chancellor, have warned Pat McFadden , the Work and Pensions Secretary, and Mr Burnham against the sweeping cuts. Both MPs were among opponents of Sir Keir’s ill-fated attempt to cut the disability ben...
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Fury as Labour tries to block report revealing migrant crimes by nationality

  The Ministry of Justice has launched legal action to prevent the publication of crime statistics by nationality. Daily Express 25/07/26 The Labour Government has been accused of trying to block a report on migrant crimes from being released. The Ministry of Justice has launched legal action to prevent the publication of crime statistics by nationality. The Information Commissioner’s Office has ordered the department to release conviction data from between 2018 and 2024, which the department is now appealing. The Centre of Migration Control (CMC), a think tank, requested data on violence, sexual offences, drugs, arson, criminal damage, weapons, theft, and robbery under the Freedom of Information Act. The Ministry of Justice has argued that the data would be too expensive, exceeding the £600 per request limit, and could risk identifying individuals, The Information Commissioner has rejected the reason cost, saying the department didn’t adequately justify this wirth a cost estimate....
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Reform will fight Burnham’s universal death tax

  We must fix social care but the PM’s plan isn’t the answer Daily Telegraph 25/07/26 Few things matter more to people than their home and their savings. So millions of people will be in for a shock this week, as our new Prime Minister sets out his plan to raid what they’ve built up to “fund” his plans for social care. No one doubts the importance of social care reform. I certainly don’t. I’ve seen in my own family the toll that our broken social care system is taking on families. I know many Telegraph readers will have painful experiences too. We haven’t seen any sign of a plan to fix it from Mr Burnham, but in the past he’s supported a flat 10 per cent tax on everyone’s inheritance. In other words, a universal death tax. There would be no exemptions, no thresholds, just a catch-all raid. Inheritance tax is already one of the most hated taxes – even by the vast majority who do not expect to pay it. That’s why, in the past, parties like the Tories have promised to abolish it, only...
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Reform has just called Andy Burnham’s bluff on our immigration crisis

  The PM has promised to hand power back to local communities. So why not let them decide if they want to house asylum seekers in their areas? Daily Telegraph 22/07/26 Andy Burnham’s favourite poet, we’ve been repeatedly told, is Philip Larkin . Our new Prime Minister will be well aware, therefore, of a certain poem that Larkin wrote exactly 60 years ago, in 1966. Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel is a hauntingly vivid sonnet – and it happens to be about a real hotel in Hull. I’m sure Mr Burnham knows this. But does he know what that beautiful hotel is used for today? If not, I bet he can guess. For the past six years, it’s been used to house asylum seekers .  Given that Larkin died in 1985, we cannot say for certain what he would have made of this development. But I think we can take a pretty good guess. Especially as, in a letter to his mother in 1970, Larkin wrote: “ Mr [Enoch] Powell is still saying we must keep out the immigrants – a pity he isn’t leading the Co...
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Burnham is a financial arsonist who will torch the public purse

  The Prime Minister’s Jekyll-and-Hyde personality masks a ruinous socialism that threatens to bankrupt us Daily Telegraph 22/0 Don’t be fooled by the strange case of Andy Burnham, a Jekyll-and-Hyde politician par excellence . There are two contradictory sides to his personality: one reassuringly conventional, affable rather than ideological, the other darkly terrifying, committed to persecuting the petite and haute bourgeoisies of southern England. The first facet, on prominent display for the benefit of the financial markets, is that of the inoffensive tinkerer, the Dr Jekyll of the North, the fake outsider, the establishment Leftist who speaks a good game, wears T-shirts but is ultimately a standard non-player character, an instant captive of the Blob, a rearranger of deckchairs who will damage but not ruin Britain. Ten-year gilt yields are up, but have yet to explode. Burnham’s “big” ideas, so far, have been strikingly underwhelming and unoriginal for a man committed to “e...
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