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Many UK tax thresholds haven't been updated for inflation in years: 🔸 £12,570 Personal Allowance (2021) would be £16k today 🔸 £50,270 higher-rate tax threshold (2021) would be £64k today 🔸 £100k threshold (2010) would be £159k today More people are paying higher taxes without realising.

The bond market is now in the room. They have arrived. Britain’s ten-year borrowing cost has risen to around 5.08%. Thirty-year borrowing is approaching 5.8%. The government is already expected to spend about £109 billion on debt interest this year, while issuing roughly £252 billion of new gilts. A sustained 0.1 percentage-point increase in the cost of that new borrowing could eventually add around £250 million a year to the interest bill. A full percentage point could mean approximately £2.5 billion. The gilt market does not care about speeches, applause or popular announcements. It asks four questions: What does it cost? Who pays? How much must Britain borrow? And does this government have control? Andy Burnham cannot afford to ignore it. Is he another Liz Truss? Not yet.

EXC: Starmer loyalists threaten revenge at the Budget after ‘purge’ from government Labour MPs tell me Andy Burnham has created ‘an incredibly powerful phalanx’ who know the government’s fiscal vulnerabilities politicshome.com/news/article/b…

Excellent

@suzyquiquero He just wants to do the domestic stuff, get the easy wins then figure it out later. Miliband isn’t going to do it all on his own, they don’t have a clue..

Doesn’t he have those four other names he could apply under? All’s not lost yet..

Day by day, I really think Farage’s chances of becoming prime minister have faded away..

🇬🇧 Living Prime Ministers of the UK Tenure breakdown: 🔵 John Major — 6y, 155d 🔴 Tony Blair — 10y, 56d 🔴 Gordon Brown — 2y, 318d 🔵 David Cameron — 6y, 63d 🔵 Theresa May — 3y, 11d 🔵 Boris Johnson — 3y, 44d 🔵 Liz Truss — 49d 🔵 Rishi Sunak — 1y, 254d 🔴 Keir Starmer — 2y, 16d 🟣 Andy Burnham — sworn in July 20, 2026 Source: Prime Minister's Office

Yeah this is good stuff, great move 👏.

Hunt is bang on here and destroys Polanski to bits. Not a high bar, but one of the most able ministers of the last government..

Deleted after he was found out. Shameless opportunism as per from Reform

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At least do Burnham’s accent properly but tbf they’ve captured why the UK is an international laughing stock. New PM every six months, so stable right?

I’m not the biggest Burnham fan by any means but yeah his music taste bangs. Proper indie kid

Surely as the chancellor Healey can just overrule him? Boy the budget will be a fun one..

Anas Sarwar, 1st Labour leader to call for Keir Starmer to resign Miatta Fahnbulleh, 1st minister to resign calling for Starmer’s resignation Ed Miliband, 1st cabinet minister to tell Starmer he should resign Look out for a job in junior ministerial appts for Clive Lewis, 1st Labour MP to call for Starmer to resign

Ok, do train fares now and we’ll be getting somewhere..

“Yeah? Piss off. I’ve resigned. Tell the rest of those useless arseholes to sort their own shit out. I’m in the pub.”

Fair play to Trump, he’s got this one right

@Thehuck_59 Yes it’s Lou Haigh in all but name as she’s First Secretary of State

Has Burnham appointed a deputy PM?