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Government Spent £15m On Digital ID Before Policy Was Scrapped
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (438+ words) PoliticsHome - Do Not Process My Personal Information The government spent around £15m on developing digital ID before the scheme was scrapped by the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Of that £15m, £800,000 was spent on the “People’s Panel”, which randomly selected 100 people from…...
The tone of Burnham's first week has met voters where they are
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (659+ words) The new Prime Minister is wise to focus on the cost of living. That is the issue that will define his premiership. I have seen six prime ministers since I ioined joined Ipsos in 2019. That turnover raises an obvious question:…...
The House | It will require a huge collective effort to make the PM's pledge to end rough sleeping a reality
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (380+ words) Image by: PA Images / Alamy Andy Burnham is singing from the Big Issue hymn sheet – but it will require some clever problem solving to help pull-off his ambitious plan to end rough sleeping I was astonished when, fresh from his…...
The steps Burnham can take to safeguard our constitution
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (403+ words) Over the past decade, political shocks like Brexit and Covid have combined with longer-term political, social and technological change to put the UK’s constitutional arrangements under pressure. The Constitution Unit’s newly published report – Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen…...
Labour MP Says Her Colleagues Are 'On A Journey' To Support Her Summer Of Sex Campaign
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1103+ words) Make Love Not Porn founder Cindy Gallop, Labour MP Samantha Niblett and Coco de Mer CEO Lucy Litwack at the 'Summer of Sex' campaign launch party (Coco de Mer/John Lewis) Labour's Samantha Niblett said she believes some of her…...
Green Party Manchester Mayoral Candidate Pledges To Twin Manchester With Palestinian City Of Ramallah
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (894+ words) Geraldine Coggins is the Green Party candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election (Alamy) Exclusive: The Green Party candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election will pledge to twin Greater Manchester with Ramallah, the administrative capital of Palestine, if she…...
The House | Britain helped drive back the world's deadliest diseases. Now it is abandoning the fight
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (663+ words) The current Ebola outbreak is back on the front pages with the news that a British aid worker recently returned from DRC is being monitored at a London hospital after displaying possible symptoms. Those of us who work in public…...
Stop arguing over accounting and call this bus fare cap what it is – a huge policy win
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (298+ words) The bus fare cap is a rare case of “Treasury brain” aligning with public demand. Nestled within a litany of blunders, it’s easy to forget that the Keir Starmer government’s decision to raise England’s bus fare cap from £2 to £3 was…...
The House Article | Reindustrialisation can give working people their freedom back
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (527+ words) Jonathan Reynolds – then business secretary, and who has returned to the role under Andy Burnham – lifts molten metal during a visit to the British Steel site in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, April 2025 (PA Images / Alamy) The defining political question for the next…...
Recipes for disaster: burger diplomacy
2+ week, 1+ day ago (216+ words) Politicians making a meal of it. This week: the Golden Arches Theory The observation was simple, but one that might contain a profound truth: no two countries with a branch of McDonalds had ever gone to war with each other....