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Keir Starmer

What's on Keir Starmer's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
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his successor's easy first fortnight 21% the verdict on his record 20% trump's north sea drilling claim 15% burnham unpicks his record 11% · neweverything else 33%
#1
Manchesterism arrives, and it isn't his

Politico, the Economist and the Institute for Government all spent the day explaining why Burnham is no ordinary Labour PM.

Six things we learned from Andy Burnham’s government formation

Institute for Government · 2026-07-28
our translation

the press has found a new theory of labour, and it isn't his theory. every glowing profile of the new man is a quiet review of the old one.

Three big think-pieces in one daypretty sure · 3 sources
#2
The obituaries keep arriving, and they can't agree
Four fresh retrospectives inside a weekvery sure · 4 sources
#3
Trump says the North Sea is opening. No 10 says 'pragmatic'
Burnham's rebuttal landed on the BBCpretty sure · 3 sources
#4
Jury trial curbs binned, Diane Abbott let back in
new — Two reversals announced the same daypretty sure · 2 sources
friday, july 31
Watch Burnham bin the jury trial curbs you commissioned(reported)
Field the texts about Diane Abbott's readmission(reported)
Let Burnham explain the North Sea to Trump himself(safe bet)
Read one legacy op-ed too many, then shut the laptop(safe bet)

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

The source

Andy Burnham signals he will scrap plans to curb jury trials

news.google.com · 2026-07-31

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