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2026-09-17 · The Guardian

Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

🔮 And more extreme weather is forecast in the months ahead. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Guardian

Greens push Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’

🔮 The Greens are pushing Zack Polanski to take a stance on a potential party policy stating “Zionism is racism”, with some fearing it could alienate Jewish supporters if it was passed. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Guardian

Polanski request to postpone Greens’ conference to focus on byelection refused by party

🔮 Zack Polanski requested that the Greens’ ruling executive committee postpone the party’s imminent annual conference so they could focus on the Holborn and St Pancras byelection but was refused. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Guardian

Lib Dems have ‘moral responsibility’ to block Reform, says Ed Davey as party gears up for snap election

🔮 Speaking ahead of the party’s annual conference in Brighton, Davey warned that discipline and focus were vital, given what he described as their “moral responsibility” in blocking a Reform-led government, predicting that Kemi Badenoch would eventually seek an alliance with Nigel Farage’s party. assertive

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget

🔮 Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Guardian

Caution versus ambition: strategy debate dominates Lib Dem conference

🔮 Even the more malcontented MPs accept he will take the party into the next election, and in many cases they also accept that his careful approach has merits. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Guardian

UK security forces were aware of RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot, says defence secretary

🔮 He said: “There’s a live police investigation, and as a matter of course we don’t comment in detail on operational security matters, because often the more that we might say, the more insight we give to those who would wish us harm and do us harm, given the opportunity.” assertive

2026-09-30 · The Guardian

‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham

🔮 Speaking to the media at the end of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Burnham said he could not give any more details amid a police investigation, but that Iran was believed to be involved. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Guardian

Group encouraging people to join Green party to back ‘Zionism is racism’ agenda

🔮 Some Jewish members have said privately they fear it will be difficult for them to remain in the party if the policy passes. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Guardian

Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

🔮 The Conservatives have unveiled a proposed £700m childcare giveaway for high earners ahead of their annual conference, saying they would end the “cliff edge” where free entitlement ends at salaries above £100,000. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Guardian

Party conference will be more upbeat than last year, Tories say – but that’s not the whole story

🔮 The forthcoming Conservative conference will be, almost everyone in the party agrees, notably more upbeat and unified than last year. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Guardian

Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

🔮 The head of the Jewish Greens has said she may leave the party after it voted to adopt a policy that equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state. mixed

2026-10-08 · The Guardian

UK’s military needs to focus spending on domestic defence, not overseas missions – report

🔮 It would involve a doubling of the defence budget in nominal terms from £70bn in 2026 to £151bn in 2035, according to the Transition Security Project, a research centre which was spun out of Common Wealth, a thinktank with close links to Andy Burnham. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Guardian

Voting opens in high stakes Holborn and St Pancras byelection

🔮 Failure to win the seat by a reasonable margin could end his honeymoon period and bring renewed doubts about Labour’s ability to protect inner-city seats from the Greens, who won several London councils in May’s local elections. Holborn and St Pancras could be promising ground for the Greens, with a young and diverse population that includes many students. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

🔮 Justifying the Conservatives’ decision to scrap the target of the UK reaching net zero emissions by 2050, introduced under Theresa May, the document says that estimates of how much this would cost the economy “have varied enormously”. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

Holborn and St Pancras byelection loss will disappoint Greens – but there may also be relief

🔮 A low turnout of 38.7% and Abdi-Wali’s numerically modest 3,364 majority that resulted might not appear the greatest endorsement of the government, but it is also likely to have been in part due to the widespread assumption that Labour would win. mixed

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

Leader of Jewish Greens calls for Zack Polanski to resign

🔮 In post-byelection interviews, Polanski said he would have voted against the motion had he attended. assertive

2026-10-20 · The Guardian

Ex-Greens co-leader urges council groups to reject Zionism policy

🔮 Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Greens, has urged his party’s councillors to reject the newly adopted “Zionism is racism” motion if it will help them stay in power in local government, in a fresh sign of internal dissent over the policy. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Guardian

Tory Brexit was ‘harder’ than promised in EU referendum, says Andy Burnham

🔮 “The prime minister opened by setting out how he would shortly write to cabinet on the UK’s relationship with the EU,” it said, adding: “He said the Brexit deal left by the last government had been bad for the UK and had led to a harder Brexit than had been promised at the referendum.” assertive

2026-10-30 · The Guardian

UK government’s obesity plan ‘doomed to fail’, MPs warn

🔮 The health and social care select committee said in a report that there are no signs the so-called “moonshot ambition on obesity”, set out in the 10-year health plan for England, will achieve anything significant. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Guardian

A world-first focus on long-term outcomes could transform UK government – or create new spending fights

🔮 It merited the briefest of mentions in John Healey’s speech and just one paragraph in the 166-page budget document, but some believe it could revolutionise not just public spending but the very process of government itself: a new focus on long-term outcomes. mixed

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