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Jo Fuller
NHS treatment / 17 July 2026
Woman sells house to fund fight against aggressive brain cancer
17 July 2026
House of Lords
PEERAGES / 17 July 2026
Yet more peers stuffed into already 700-strong Lords will be baffling to public, ERS warns
17 July 2026
RIGHTS NEEDED: Prison officers face a uniquely tough working environment and must be able to flex their industrial muscle
Britain / 16 July 2026
UN urges British government to ‘eradicate the stain’ of preventative detentions
16 July 2026

United Nations experts slam Britain for ‘perpetuating serious human rights violations’

04/07/26 of Andy Burnham being interviewed by Sky Sports ahead of the Betfred Super League match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 16 July 2026
Put living standards first, unions tell Burnham
16 July 2026
Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024
Climate Crisis / 16 July 2026
North Sea oil and gas plans ‘won’t take a penny off our bills,’ campaigners warn as public consultation begins
16 July 2026
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 15 July 2026
Welsh Labour appoints new leader
15 July 2026
School children in a classroom
Wales / 15 July 2026
Welsh government must rectify ‘chronic underfunding’ of additional learning needs, unions demand
15 July 2026
An Uber vehicle stops across the road from a taxi rank in Sy
Workers' Rights / 15 July 2026
Taxi drivers' union calls on Burnham to halt driverless car trials as first act in office
15 July 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, May 19, 2026
Labour / 13 July 2026
40+ human rights groups demand government close ‘inhumane’ asylum accommodation in former military sites
13 July 2026
We Own It
Healthcare / 13 July 2026
Campaigners call on Burnham to ‘red card’ pharma deal with US
13 July 2026
A view of BAE Systems' Barrow-in-Furness shipyard in Cumbria, October 30, 2024
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 13 July 2026
BAE Systems offered money to Special Branch to spy on anti arms trade campaigners
13 July 2026
People enjoy the sun at Viking Bay, Broadstairs, Kent. The heatwave across the UK looks set to continue as 2026 became the first year to record temperatures of 35C on six separate days, July 12, 2026
Climate / 13 July 2026
May and June heatwaves caused excessive deaths, highlighting ‘tragic indictment of energy system’
13 July 2026
A Thames Water van
Britain / 13 July 2026
MPs call for special administration of Thames Water as future of the utility hangs in the balance
13 July 2026
Workers' Rights / 12 July 2026
Foreign Office staff to strike over compulsory redundancy threat
12 July 2026
Pension / 11 July 2026
UC is no easy fix in pension crisis
11 July 2026

MPs back measure for 66-year-olds but it won't end suffering, groups say

Police detain protestors during a demonstration outside of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 7, 2026
Protest / 10 July 2026
British woman on hunger strike in Turkey after Nato summit protest arrest
10 July 2026
A plane taking off from Heathrow Airport
Climate / 10 July 2026
Reeves mis-sold Heathrow expansion to the cabinet, Labour MPs and the country
10 July 2026
Health Secretary James Murray during a visit to Watford General Hospital in Hertfordshire where he saw how, the hospital which was near the bottom of the league tables three years ago and corridor care had become normalised, now is consistently within the top 10 NHS Trusts in the country for A&E waiting times and have eliminated corridor care, July 9, 2026
Healthcare / 9 July 2026
More than 3,000 people a day treated in corridors in June as summer strains NHS
9 July 2026
Labour Party MP Stephen Timms attends a service to honour Sir David Amess at the Church of St Margaret, in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, London, October 18, 2021
Austerity / 9 July 2026
PIP system is failing disabled people, TUC and campaigners says following Timms review
9 July 2026
A woman leave Blackfriars station in London using an electric fan. A rare red warning for extreme heat has been issued by the Met Office as the UK has sweltered in exceptionally hot and humid conditions. The heatwave, driven by a
Heatwave / 9 July 2026
Overheating in buildings being remediated poses ‘serious risk to health’, new letter warns
9 July 2026
Union members and climate activists drop banner on Brighton Beach in response to government inaction on extreme UK temperatures. Photography Léo Bodelle
Climate Breakdown / 8 July 2026
15 million adults left feeling unwell by recent heatwave
8 July 2026

Unions and climate activists pressure government to consider legislation for maximum working temperature

Roaa Abu Jarad mourns over the body of her father Omran Abu Jarad, 48, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 7, 2026
Politics / 7 July 2026
Polanski calls on Burnham to answer if he will end Britain's participation in Gaza genocide or continue it
7 July 2026
Dan Jarvis
Military Spending / 6 July 2026
Warmongering Jarvis ‘will lead us to annihilation’
6 July 2026
housing
Housing planning / 6 July 2026
Half of affordable new homes in rural England could be at risk if planning rules relaxed, analysis shows
6 July 2026
Reverend Sue Parfitt
Gaza protests / 5 July 2026
Palestine Action activists arrested on first anniversary of ban
5 July 2026
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Independence Day / 5 July 2026
Red scared: Donald Trump warns communism is the greatest threat US has ever faced in independence day rant
5 July 2026
Nicholas Stern
Labour leadership / 5 July 2026
Starmer and former Treasury adviser give Burnham advice ahead of crowning
5 July 2026
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (right) Raul Castro (centre), Commander Ramiro Valdes (centre left), and Jose Ramon Machado Ventura (left), attend an event marking the 172nd anniversary of the birth of Jose Marti, in Havana, January 27, 2025
Gaza / 3 July 2026
Burnham must end arms sales to Israel, anti-war campaigners demand after 1,000 days of genocide
3 July 2026
RENTERS REVOLT: Supporters of the Renters Reform Bill and tenant’s groups campaign in Westminster, 2023
Renters' Rights / 3 July 2026
Tenants at risk of losing homes in south London demand council protects them from ‘mass eviction’
3 July 2026
Model houses on a pile of coins and banknotes
Renters' Rights / 3 July 2026
Government must ‘be much more ambitious’ enforcing new tenants rights, MPs say
3 July 2026
Campaigners rally against Palantir. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
AI / 2 July 2026
Keep Palantir out of NHS, Burnham told if he wants to keep promise to ‘put public before US Big Tech’
2 July 2026
The Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, central London
Justice System / 2 July 2026
Teenage rapists detained for four years after ‘unduly lenient’ sentence reviewed
2 July 2026
A view of the Chamber of the House of Lords ahead of the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London, May 13, 2026
Exclusive / 1 July 2026
Lords see their share holdings in fossil fuel firms grow as energy price cap rises and bills soar
1 July 2026
A member of HS2 staff walks through the Chilterns tunnel close to its ventilation shaft which surfaces near Chalfont St. Peter, as work on the HS2 project continues in West Hyde, Hertfordshire, January 16, 2026
Infrastructure / 1 July 2026
Northern Rail Project risks repeating costly HS2 failures, MPs warn
1 July 2026
Signage at the newly improved service family accommodation in Uxbridge, west London, which was visited by Defence Secretary John Healey, November 3, 2025
Public Finances / 30 June 2026
Ministry of Defence's ‘disastrous’ military homes deal cost taxpayers £14.5bn, National Audit Office reveals
30 June 2026
RAF Linton-On-Ouse in North Yorkshire, which the Home Office plans to use to detain thousands of asylum seekers in its quest to shut more hotels, June 26, 2026
Performative Cruelty / 30 June 2026
Home Office reaches ‘new depths of cruelty’ with plans to saddle refugees with £10K debt
30 June 2026