July 2026 is the month the UK started to steer the ship on a new course that cares more about ordinary people and builds a more caring society.

Burnham: Week 2 • Local areas can keep a share of income tax • Diane Abbott suspension from Labour lifted • £4,500 bursary for apprentices in single parent families • National Social Care free at the point of use coming • Ofsted ordered to treat vocational education equally

Andy Burnham today announces: • Devolved Education to Mayors & Regions in 2028 • A new Baccalaureate equalising vocational & academic quals • Emphasis on skills needed for Green Revolution including manufacturing & engineering • Ofsted instructed to treat vocational equally

New poll shows Burnham’s Labour now beating Farage. • Labour 28% • Reform 24% • Conservatives 22% • Lib Dem 12% • Green 8% [MoreInCommon]

UK: July 2026 • British Steel Nationalised • MerseyRail nationalised • £2 Bus Fare Cap back • Hillsborough Law • VAT on electricity 0% • Scrapped Digital ID • Opened No.10 North • Cut Business Tax for pubs by 20% • Paused Prisoner Release Scheme • Rough Sleeping Edict

Next week, Andy Burnham will outline his flagship policy. A National Care Service - just like our NHS - free at the point of use. The spirit of Nye Bevan has returned.

Burnham’s first week: • Cut VAT on electricity to 0% • Scrapped Digital ID • Restored the £2 Bus Fare Cap • Opened No.10 North • Cut Business Tax for pubs & club by 20% • Paid for by taxing Vape Stores & Slot Machine Stores more • Halted Prisoner Release Scheme for review

New 20% Business Rate cut for pubs Your local pub will have its business rates cut by 20% from April under Andy Burnham’s new policy to help revive our pub and club industry. A thriving community needs a local pub where you can spend time relaxing with your friends and family.

UK in last the 2 weeks • British Steel Nationalised • Digital IDs scrapped • VAT on electricity scrapped • MerseyRail nationalised • £2 Bus Fare Cap restored • Hillsborough Law passed • Apology for Labour’s failings in Gaza • 14 Starmerites no longer in Cabinet

New • Keir Starmer raised your bus fares from £2 to £3, a cost of £480 a year for a full time commuting worker and a rise of 50%. • Andy Burnham today announces he will scrap that rise and restore the £2 bus fares cap. That’s the difference.

UK Polling Latest • Labour 28% • Reform 28% • Tory 18% • Green 10% • Lib Dem 10% [DeltaPoll]

Andy Burnham has just abolished VAT on your energy bills. You will no longer face a VAT tax just to keep warm. This costs £800 million every year but will be paid for by scrapping Digital IDs. Digital IDs were an authoritarian invasion into your personal freedom.

Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary is good news for the left. • Ed Miliband defeated Cameron’s vote for the UK to enter the war against Syria. • Ed Miliband whipped his MPs to recognise Palestine. • Ed opposed the Iraq War in 2003 & lobbied Blair to stay out of it.

4 Senior Starmer Ministers have just resigned from Cabinet • David Lammy • Rachel Reeves • Steve Reed • Peter Kyle

Andy Burnham speech just now as he enters No. 10 promising • End rough sleeping • Build Council Homes • New Education system • End Neoliberal Economic Model • Mental Health Support for youth • Cost of Living policies announced tomorrow

Number of people who voted Labour: • 2017 (Corbyn) 12,877,918 🥇 • 2019 (Corbyn) 10,269,051 🥈 • 2024 (Starmer) 9,708,716 🥉

This week the UK: • Nationalised British Steel • Approved brining MerseyRail under public control • Scrapped Digital IDs • Amended & passed Hillsborough Law to include duty of candour for MI5 etc

Andy Burnham says the UK took a lot of wrong turns in the 1980s and that Labour went on to wear too many Tory clothes. He promises a return to the Labour people once knew.

A higher percentage of Green Party voters (85%) in Manchester believe Andy Burnham did a good job as Manchester Mayor than any other party - even Labour.

Breaking news: • British Steel has this morning just been nationalised and brought back under public control. Such a strategically important industry should never have been privatised in the first place.

Andy Burnham plonked a chair in the middle of Cardiff today just to meet ordinary people, and give them the chance to ask him some questions. Andy is at his happiest among regular people. [photo is @Cathy_Owens]

🚨 Andy Burnham tonight 🚨 • “I am sorry” for how Labour behaved on Gaza • Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza • I will 100% follow the International Courts rulings • I will sanction the Israeli government • We will explore banning Israeli goods from illegal settlements

Nigel Farage knows Parliamentary Standards Watchdog are going to find against him. • He’s trying to subvert investigation with this sideshow. • Parties should refuse to field candidates and let investigation take its course. That, or field a unity anti-sleaze candidate.

The left should field a single unity candidate against Nigel Farage similar to Martin Bell in 1997 for this new upcoming Clacton By Election.

• The poor don’t have paid lobbyists • The weapons corps do That’s why our defence budget is ballooning and our welfare budget is standing still while all the time the papers write the opposite is the case. Paid lobbyists.

🚨 New • Labour are now going to introduce a new Executive Pay Cap of £174,000 that would be applied to Schools. • This is designed to halt the 100 Fat Cat Academy School bosses who rake in £200-500,000. Change is coming.

UK Poll: Andy Burnham (favourability ratings) • All Left Wing Voters +37% • ‘Soft’ Left Voters +45% • ‘Hard’ Left Voters +29% Ipsos Mori

UK Poll: Andy Burnham (favourability ratings) • All Left Wing Voters +37% • ‘Soft’ Left Voters +45% • ‘Hard’ Left Voters +29% Ipsos Mori

• UK is now going to open new safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK. Tories closed down safe routes to cause the boat crisis to drive voters to the right. Delighted that families will be able to come to the UK and settle into our communities & build a life here