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Matthew Jeffery: Burnham offered hope. Kemi, please bury the past and then thrill us with the future

Last week Andy Burnham sought to give the country hope and in doing so, seized the political agenda. That makes this week’s Conservative Party Conference critical for both the party and Kemi Badenoch. Kemi needs to…

'Don't axe Youth Parliament' pleads teen member

Last month the BBC learned the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) would not be committing to giving any more grants to the UK Youth Parliament. "If the government is to cut the Youth Parliament there…

Alex Challoner: To win back London and City Hall, Conservatives need to listen to Londoners

At last, the Conservative campaign to kick out Sadiq Khan is heating up. But, while the anger over Labour’s repeated failures in London grows, it is important to remind ourselves that this is only the beginning of a…

It was, it has to be said, something of a triumph, but there is now a familiar sense of nagging angst over how his big idea of a national care service is actually going to work. But equally, it doesn't seem unreasonable…

‘Britain and the EU – what are the options?’

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened a debate about what to do about our relationship with the EU, now that Brexit is widely seen to have been a costly failure which bears no relationship to what had been promised by…

‘For You Project: The Future of Campaigning?’

It’s a sentence we hear a lot, and as a young person making their first foray into the world of communication and campaigning, it certainly feels like the direction of travel. This is exciting. There are new…

The race for the EU’s plum diplomatic jobs begins

Then, we head to France, where a wave of student protests is spilling into the presidential campaign, sharpening the contrast between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen and adding to what one government adviser called…

Ball in UK’s court: EU ambassador says Brussels will be ‘ready to engage‘ after country decides what it wants

Burnham has been clearer than his predecessor Keir Starmer in saying that what exists now is not working and that a full range of options, including rejoining, has to be on the table ahead of Labour's next election…

Push to ban EU left group over French riots

The process could ultimately lead to the deregistration and loss of EU funding — effectively a ban — for the ELA. It’s home to Spain’s Podemos, Denmark’s Enhedslisten, Italy’s Left and Portugal’s Bloco de Esquerda. The…

Securing energy and trade flows in geo-economic conflicts

The standard view in policy circles was that trade made countries more secure and stable. Governments therefore now use tariffs and export controls as a chokepoint of power. Today interdependence between countries became…