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Burnham says Brexit brought ‘decade of low growth’ in first Commons address as prime minister – UK politics live

1 September 2026 at 19:38

PM says he has a ‘clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong’ with UK, and pays tribute to Keir Starmer after his predecessor quit parliament

My colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM.

Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a reshuffle, replacing Mel Stride with Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor and Priti Patel with Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary.

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© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

Burnham says Brexit brought ‘decade of low growth’ in first Commons address as prime minister – UK politics live

1 September 2026 at 19:38

PM says he has a ‘clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong’ with UK, and pays tribute to Keir Starmer after his predecessor quit parliament

My colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM.

Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a reshuffle, replacing Mel Stride with Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor and Priti Patel with Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary.

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© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

© Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

The London office, the empty boxes and the £1bn tax loophole

31 August 2026 at 15:00

Exclusive: How a court case over an unoccupied office block could end a widely used tax avoidance scheme

From the outside, the seven-storey building at 2 America Square looks like any other office block in the heart of London’s financial district.

Located about half a mile from Tower Bridge, one might expect it to be a hive of commercial activity, teeming with employees holding important meetings. However, much of the property is home not to staff vying for their next bonus, but to stacks of nondescript black boxes arranged in neat lines.

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© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

© Photograph: Brian Anthony/Alamy

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