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Outside groups are spending millions on races that could determine Senate control
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How will Burnham’s national care service work – and how will it be funded?
PM has revealed more details about a proposed shake-up of adult social care – including a broad timetable Andy Burnham’s Labour conference speech gave a little more detail on how he intends to take forward what he said at the start of his premiership would be his signature social policy ambition: an overhaul of adult social care. This article was updated after official clarifications on future care policy plans were issued Continue reading...
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Yvette Cooper tells Labour conference ‘Sure Start’s back’ as she expands Healthy Babies programme – UK politics live
Health secretary says government ‘will bring back the Sure Start health services into every family centre’ Andy Burnham has suggested that it would not be legitimate for a party to form a majority government with less than 30% of the vote. In his Today interview, asked why he wanted electoral reform and a move towards proportional representation, Burnham replied: I found it better being elected under a different system as mayor of Greater Manchester, where people had one or two, they could put that on the ballot paper. Because you had a reason to stop on every doorstep and chat to people who might not always support your party and try and get their second preference. No, it could happen with any political party. It’s whether that would be a legitimate government. I think you’ve got it completely wrong really, if you don’t mind me saying, to put it like that, because I have put out … a vi
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Mediation over Drumcree parade is ‘dead in the water’, say nationalists
Northern Ireland secretary holding talks with both sides as Garvaghy Road group launches fresh legal challenge UK politics live – latest updates Talks to break the deadlock over the controversial Drumcree parade will continue with the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant, on Wednesday as nationalist protesters declare the prospect of mediation with unionists “dead in the water”. The nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents’ Coalition has at the same time launched a fresh legal challenge to reimpose the almost 30-year ban on the Orange Order marching down their road, mounting fresh arguments that the Parades Commission has “materially misdirected itself”. Continue reading...
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Burnham to fight next election on pledge to change voting system
The prime minister says he wants other parties to take part in a national commission on electoral reform.
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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Burnham
The prime minister tells the BBC the current Brexit settlement has caused "more harm than good".
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Edinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sector
Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty Welcome classes for students at the University of Edinburgh this year didn’t focus on the lectures, seminars and essays expected. Instead, students were told about how their education was going to fit in around the strikes planned for this year, which for many will effectively wipe out a term of teaching. “This term I’ve got two courses and my dissertation. Currently, I’ve got no teaching for five weeks,” said Theo Warshaw, 22, in his final year studying geography at Edinburgh, where staff are striking over budget cuts and compulsory redundancies needed to bridge what the university’s leaders have said is a £400m shortfall. Continue reading...