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If this is all true, and the Heron House (No. 10 North) rental application really was submitted on 11 May 2026, just three days before Joshua Simons resigned as Makerfield MP, it suggests this whole Andy Burnham Labour coup was being planned months in advance. The building was allegedly already being prepared for Burnham to take over and move the Prime Minister's office to Manchester. This is pretty incredible if accurate. At that point, Andy Burnham was still Mayor of Manchester, Makerfield still had an MP in Joshua Simons, and Labour still had a Prime Minister in Keir Starmer. The whole sequence feels incredibly murky, with plenty of political backstabbing involved. If this timeline is correct, it would also help explain why Burnham appears to have sidelined talented MPs seen as loyal to Starmer, including Darren Jones and Mike Tapp.

Today, Canada officially signed a Free Trade Agreement with Ecuador alongside Luis Alberto Jaramillo, Ecuador’s Minister of Production, Foreign Trade and Investment, marking an important step forward for Canadian businesses, workers and exporters. This agreement will open new opportunities for Canadian companies in a growing market, strengthen supply chains, and create more predictable access for goods, services and investment between our two countries. It will create opportunities across key sectors including agriculture and agri-food, clean technology, infrastructure, natural resources, manufacturing, services and digital trade.