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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Does rugby league hold the key to Andy Burnham's success?

🏉 Labour MPs Charlotte Nichols and @JadeBotterill, and political historian Anthony Broxton @labour_history join @Alain_Tolhurst and @adampayne26 to discuss how rugby league intersects with the politics of place and local pride

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/Qi1j8yjA5c

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Andy Burnham has told PolHome he would take a "much more devolved" approach to getting people into work and bringing down welfare spending

"We've all got to be concerned with getting the welfare bill down.

"I don't think there’s any debate about that, to be honest, it's how you do it," Labour's Makerfield by-election candidate told @_tomscotson https://t.co/2ilTKEqpSs

[Tom Scotson @_tomscotson]

NEW: Andy Burnham has said he would take a "much more devolved" approach to getting people into work and bringing down welfare spending

Speaking to @PoliticsHome in Makerfield on Friday, where he is standing as Labour's by-election candidate later this month, the Greater Manchester mayor said: "We've all got to be concerned with getting the welfare bill down.

"I don't think there’s any debate about that, to be honest, it's how you do it."

[Sienna Rodgers @siennamarla]

EXCL: Andy Burnham supports “early change” to the House of Lords

“I'm not going to hold back on it,” he tells me, as “I can't justify, personally, 800-plus members of the House of Lords”

“I've long believed that there's a first stage of Lords reform, which is indirect election that could be linked to a general election”

Burnham also says he still backs Labour reversing its policy on contesting elections in Northern Ireland, and that electoral reform could enable the move 👇
https://t.co/KugTAOsZrY

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Andy Burnham has told The House magazine he is "not going to hold back" on "early change" to the House of Lords if he becomes prime minister

Speaking to @siennamarla in Makerfield on Friday, the Labour candidate – who wants to replace Keir Starmer in No 10 – said modernising the Upper Chamber was the "first place to look" to "cut the cost of politics"

"I just think we've allowed this to persist for too long," Burnham said
https://t.co/XqI3lJOy0M

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The Lord Cormack Fellowship, a paid editorial and political journalism fellowship with The House magazine, Parliament’s independent and cross-party publication, is back for another year!

Apply here: https://t.co/FvXzpJM1SJ

[Adam Payne @adampayne26]

This week, @patrickkmaguire wrote that Makerfield has been "shaped by... the Labour Party, the Catholic Church, and rugby league”

Our new podcast ep looks at the third of those: rugby league — the politics of the game, and how it fits into Burnham-ism

https://t.co/L9Rc5nNyqv

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"We have an ambition to get people to travel across the country”: Tourism minister Stephanie Peacock talks about the controversial tourist tax and tackling short-term holiday lets🧳

https://t.co/6OkvklCB3r

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The teenage Reform UK councillor leading two local authorities has claimed that a Restore Britain government would deport people "just because of their colour"

George Finch said that Sikh and Gurkha communities in his area, who have "fought with us (Britain)" in wars, would be "gone" if Rupert Lowe's party entered power

A Restore Britain spokesperson told PolHome: “Finch is talking total bullshit" https://t.co/69qRVhvHuN

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We must do more to help young people access music if we want the UK to Rock the Casbah
✍️ @NeilForPoole

https://t.co/51CN2fA5ta

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“This is literally a dream come true”: As the Royal Ballet And Opera works to shake off an elitist reputation, meet the apprentices who have made it backstage 🎭

https://t.co/Dr1mVwiZja

[Noah Vickers @noahvickers14]

NEW: Tourist taxes are coming to England - but how will they work? And why did the government change its mind on the policy?

My feature includes chats with @MetroMayorSteve, @BassamMahfouz, @ChrisWebbMP, @allen_m_simpson, @EmmaLewell and more

https://t.co/ou81d6Il9k

[Adam Payne @adampayne26]

We’re once again offering two aspiring young journalists the chance to spend a couple of weeks - paid and accommodation provided - with The House mag and PolHome teams this summer. Further details and application form linked. DM if you have questions

https://t.co/YeIZ1WJlwO

[Stephanie Peacock MP @Steph_Peacock]

Read my interview with the @TheHouseMag 👇

https://t.co/l3CEmxxMdX

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Medical practitioners report modest improvements in sleep, physical activity and mental health concerns. Children are being redirected toward helplines, school-moderated communities and sports facilities. This is exactly the kind of systemic shift the law was designed to encourage

Australia's under-16 social media ban has shifted the Overton window — the UK should follow suit, argues Dr Danielle Einstein
https://t.co/QmgWatGl1k

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Former TV executive Lord Grade on the struggles of leading Ofcom, the critics of GB News and why he is deeply worried about the future of British TV 📺

https://t.co/Y6v6VrR3Y0

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Wes Streeting has said Reform UK’s response to the murder of Henry Nowak “has echoes of the 1930s”

“To weaponise it against their political opponents, and to stoke rage, and to incite rage is really dangerous, and it's not too dramatic to say this has echoes of the 1930s," he told a reception on Wednesday night

Speaking about a heavily criticised Reform UK attack ad about Kemi Badenoch, Streeting added: “We have to take this seriously when you have political propaganda that weaponises the words of the LOTO, bends and twists them out of context to suggest that a Black woman leading the Conservative Party doesn't think that white lives matter, that is a moment for all of us, especially those who are not Conservative, to speak up and challenge and call this out" https://t.co/lKTIpyC1vH

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"Meticulously researched, David Torrance’s study of the 1926 General Strike is both erudite and engaging"

📚 Baroness Andrews reviews @davidtorrance's 'The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike that Shook Britain' | @BloomsContinuum @BloomsburyBooks
https://t.co/A4Hnw2w5KM

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The Bank of England shows that not all public sector projects are doomed to fail
✍️ @Clifton_BrownG

https://t.co/lHsdvJ3SHF

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The 1965 Leyton By-election: when Denis Healey punched a fascist 🥊

https://t.co/JKqbJMBYpp