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Don’t let Angela Rayner see the budget
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EXCL: My interview with Ed Miliband, the cover of our Labour conference edition, who talks about:
— why Keir Starmer had to go and why “we were right to make the change”
— the ex-PM’s future in foreign policy
— Burnham’s culture reset in government
— what he and the new PM have learnt on their political journeys
— David Miliband’s advice on the new job
— sanctions: Radio 4’s “slightly unfortunate” interview, his late mum’s influence and being a “resilient idealist”
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End rough sleeping … stop all small boats … stretch targets are good but I suspect Lucy Powell is correct that you “can't stop everything all of the time”
Our BBC South East interview with Andy Burnham, in which he says he wants to stop all small boats but declines to say when and says Brexit hasn’t helped:
Our goal is to stop all migrant boats, says Burnham bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9d…
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NEW: Andy Burnham says next general election will be in 2029
Tells regional broadcasters: "Well yes, that's when the next election will be. All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead."
In another interview he says: "No election any time soon"
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One hell of a line-up at the POLITICO Pub at Labour conference — colleagues from across the newsroom will be doing 20-minute live interviews 😎
I'll be talking to:
🔴 Biz Sec Jonathan Reynolds (5pm Sun)
🔴 Foreign Sec Ed Miliband (2pm Mon)
🔴 London Mayor Sadiq Khan (3pm Mon)
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Darren Jones tells @PronouncedAlva: “The irony of the welfare rebellion – that was organised by people who are now in government – was that Keir wasn’t here because he was saving NATO ... I don’t think he’s being given sufficient credit for it.”
Exc: Darren Jones on the "coup", the secret deals that got Andy Burnham into Number 10, and what Labour needs to do now.
Interview with Starmer's former right-hand man in this week's New Statesman: our Labour conference special
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Interesting to marry this up with what Burnham told us on the plane — I asked if the recent warnings of doom had given him pause. He said they had. But added “We’ve got to find that point of balance here, not all of a sudden turn against and become … a doom-monger about AI.”
Exclusive from @MaxKendix
US artificial intelligence companies are deliberately overstating the risk posed by their technology for their own financial benefits, senior British officials believe
Andy Burnham told the UN general assembly that the world must rein in artificial intelligence and that there needs to be a “single set of global principles and standards”. He said while AI offers potentially transformative benefits to the economy, education and healthcare, it also represents a potential “source of disruption to the way we live and work”
However privately officials believe that AI companies have a vested interest in exaggerating the power of their technology
An official told The Times: “The companies are incentivised to sound the alarm: they sell more by overstating the power of their models, and they can squeeze out competition by being the only ones who can afford to operate in the constraints.”
They also said that Britain’s ability to regulate the sector is limited because the biggest AI models are owned by US companies
The official said: “The public message for parliament and the public has to be of concern and seeming like we’re acting. But in reality all that we can do is try and persuade the White House to include us in their frameworks.”
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Interesting dispatch on the factors behind Piddington by @BlewettSam, who happened to bump into Kemi Badenoch when he was out there
It raises the key Q - how will the government respond? And will it have to "make an example" of the village?
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Before Burnham’s meeting with Donald Trump, a senior govt figure noted wryly that they were looking out for one thing — whether the U.S. president would claim that Burnham was better than the last guy.
In a cramped basement room in the UN, Trump did just that...
My analysis ⬇️
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They gave each other a free pass (on "fake news" and West Bank) and were on best behaviour — that's how these early meetings work
But tensions were closer to the surface than on Starmer's first trip
Chagos the headline, but AI arguably more fundamental
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No. 10 confirms this story: “The leaders discussed the case of British citizen Jimmy Lai, with the prime minister reiterating the need for his immediate release.”
EXCL - Andy Burnham asked Donald Trump to bring up Jimmy Lai’s case when he speaks to China’s Xi this week
By @DashaBurns me and @PhelimKine
politico.com/news/2026/09/22…
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