Burnham invites Tories and Lib Dems to social care talks

In a speech, the PM is expected to say finding common ground across party lines will be key to fixing social care.

Leading economic think tank warns there is ‘no capacity’ to borrow more with inflation set to go higher than expected, growth set to plummet and a massive squeeze on spending

Tory chief Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader have been asked to meet with the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to tackle a problem governments have kicked into the long-grass for decades

Burnham invites party leaders for meeting over social care reform  ITVX

REFORM and the Tories have challenged Andy Burnham to rule out tax hikes to fix Britain's broken social care system. The Prime Minister has vowed he does not want to leave office without fixing the crisis, but has not explained how he would pay for any reform. Labour has floated the idea that families could...

Defence secretary Wes Streeting says the country will see a prime minister that ‘runs towards big and difficult issues’ Good morning. Yesterday Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, told Sky News that, while Andy Burnham spent his first week as PM focusing on cost of living issues, this week the public would see “a pri