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Brexit referendum 'possible' in Labour election manifesto, says Burnham
The PM says a referendum wouldn't be the right thing now but the UK needs to consider its options for the future.
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UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, Burnham says
The prime minister's comments come days after the suspects were released on the 'strictest possible bail conditions'.
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‘He persuaded us’: Labour ministers moved by Andy Burnham’s emotional conference speech
Prime minister’s pure political argument marks new era for party as he sets out his plans and priorities The hottest ticket at Labour conference – after Andy Burnham’s speech – was an afterparty in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, headlined with a set by the noughties girlband Sugababes. As Labour activists and ministers belted out the lyrics under pink spotlights, it was hard not to draw some parallels with the party’s recent history. There have been painful lineup changes and a lot of internal division, but this week onstage in Liverpool the originals are back together and they only played the hits. The fans can’t get enough. Continue reading...
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Electoral reform could be a gamble too far for Burnham – but so far he’s on a winning streak| Zoe Williams
Though proportional representation poses risks for Labour, it’s a change that feels necessary for today’s volatile politics A number of people have admitted to tears during Andy Burnham’s Labour party conference speech , and most of them mean when he talked about his father, who died very recently. But then there were a few (not me) who welled up when he announced a commission on electoral reform . It was just the sheer shock of it: that we may finally have a prime minister who will follow through on his own long-held beliefs and remain loyal to his long-term support base, even if it makes him avoidable enemies and, medium-term, destroys Labour’s only-trodden path to victory. It felt a bit like slipping through time, and I couldn’t even tell you to when (definitely not the 1990s). Burnham’s support for proportional representation has always been extremely unusual for a Labour politician.
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Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch | John Crace
Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens Is this the sketch my father would have wanted? Not something I have previously given much thought to. He died 15 years before I even started this job. But my guess is that it is. He was the loveliest of men who only ever wanted for me what I wanted for me. He was stupidly proud of even my most forgettable successes. I still see him in my dreams, cheering me on. He’d almost certainly be embarrassed, but secretly pleased, to find himself in the first paragraph. But that’s enough about my father issues. Time now to talk about Andy Burnham’s. In his emotional and gamechanging leader’s speech on Tuesday – I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to have a politician other than Nigel Farage say exactly what he thinks and believes – Andy told us he wanted to build the country his father would