‘He feels more relatable’: Burnham’s conference speech wins praise from drifting Labour voters
The UK prime minister has earned his party a rehearing but the battle of public opinion is not yet won“He’s offering what no other politician has offered for a long, long time. He actually feels like he’s one of us,” was how Neil, a geography teacher,…
‘Just like my big brothers’: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology
Patrick McCabe’s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities systemPatrick McCabe is instantly recognisable in the early autumn sunshine, his wheelchair surrounded by fellow pupils at Fallibroome Academy in…
The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: a party still searching for a purpose | Editorial
Kemi Badenoch has a lot to say about Labour and Reform UK but none of it amounts to a coherent alternative programme for governmentThe Conservative party is far from the margin of British politics, but it has yet to recover the relevance to which it…
Utilities are public services – and should not be run as businesses | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Will Hutton and Andy Haldane suggesting that they could be run for the public benefitWill Hutton and Andy Haldane advocate “turning [utilities] into public-benefit companies with a primary, constitutional objective of…
Andy Burnham’s ultimate test will be whether people’s lives improve | Letters
Measures of wellbeing should carry real weight in decisions about tax, spending and public services, says Sarah DavidsonRe your editorial on Andy Burnham’s conference speech (29 September), the outcome that all governments should seek is a real…
For too long, only the right has expanded the boundaries of what governments can do. Can Burnham change that? | Andy Beckett
The PM might come across as a nice bloke but he is politically ruthless. He will need to be if he is to turn big talk into big changesHow much can a Labour government change the country? According to many voters, journalists and politicians, including…
Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employmentMinisters are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a…
Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’UK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage has claimed that Andy Burnham has given him “the biggest boost in my career” by reviving the Brexit debate, which the Reform UK…
Burnham is right that ‘hope comes from honesty’. That’s why Labour must make the case for rejoining the EU | Sadiq Khan
Brexit was a disastrous act of national self-harm. Britain needs EU membership to bring growth and security in an increasingly volatile worldHope again. That was the prime minister’s message to the country this week. A national social care system,…
Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will | Enver Solomon
Ministers need to level with the public about what current prison sentences look like – who needs to be locked up and for how longEnver Solomon is chief executive of Nacro, the criminal justice charity‘Thank you Andy Burnham’: prisoners react as they…