frozen snapshot — 2026-07-25 · see today →

What's on Keir Starmer's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6

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burnham purges his loyalists 26% the verdict on his record 18% · newloyalists plot budget payback 12% · newburnham already outranks him 9% everything else 35%

Burnham's First Week Ends With the Starmerites Cleared Out

Every first-week explainer — BBC, The Conversation, the FT — is about who Burnham axed and who he rewarded.

How Andy Burnham’s rise to PM was helped by those axed by Starmer

Financial Times · 2026-07-23

our translation

he built that machine and it took a week to dismantle. watching your own staff get reshuffled out of the building is the part nobody warns you about.

first-week reviews everywherevery sure · 3 sources

The Post-Mortem Lands: 'No Better Off Than They Found It'

new — bank and columnists both scoring himvery sure · 3 sources

Bruised Starmerites Turn the Leaving Party Into a Faction

new — farewell drinks read as faction launchpretty sure · 2 sources

YouGov's July Ratings Arrive, And He's Now History

YouGov July ratings just publishedpretty sure · 2 sources

saturday, july 25

Read the first-week verdicts on Burnham, wince quietly(safe bet)

Field texts from bruised loyalists already plotting the budget(reported)

Diarise Burnham's Kuenssberg debut for tomorrow morning(reported)

Keep flat-hunting; Churchill managed homelessness with more style(reported)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Chris Mason: What his first week in power tells us about Andy Burnham

news.google.com · 2026-07-25

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