Burnham says he was not aware of Brand's 'horrific' crimes

🔮 Brand threatened to sue the newspaper and said he would give the money to victims of the Hillsborough disaster, a group Burnham has long campaigned for.

🔮 - Published The home secretary has declined to specify how much scrapping her plan to make foreign care workers already in the UK wait longer to qualify for permanent settlement will cost.

🔮 But the change of prime minister over the summer gave renewed hope to those unhappy Labour MPs that they could force the Home Office into two changes.

🔮 It is the latest sign of how pivotal the government outpost - designed as a sister office to London's Downing Street - may prove to Burnham's aim to devolve power across the country.

🔮 The plan boosted defence spending; however the chancellor continues to come under pressure to explain how he will meet a further target of spending 3% of national income on defence by 2030.

🔮 James Lyons, who served as Sir Keir's director of communications, said over the weekend that "moving out was something that was discussed" during his time in post. Two other senior figures confirmed that discussions were had about moving staff into an open plan space in another government department. One source said a space inside the Foreign Office building, a short distance from Downing Street, had been identified. Both stressed that discussions did not go beyond an early phase and it's not known whether Sir Keir himself was consulted. There's no suggestion that the prime minister would have stopped living in Downing Street if the plan had gone forward.

🔮 Asked by broadcasters if he could introduce free movement without a public vote Andy Burnham said "no", but sources told the BBC no decision on that has been made.

🔮 - Published The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.

🔮 He repeatedly returned to the issue when making interventions as the Mayor of Greater Manchester, and in his first major interview as prime minister back in July, Burnham pledged to put "whatever political capital I have into fixing broken social care".

🔮 The party's economic spokesman told the BBC that he did not expect that it will have to return any of the money from Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne, who are both British and have spent time living overseas.