Kemi Badenoch says Andy Burnham will make the same mistakes as former Conservative governments by “making announcements before having a plan ready”. During a press conference in London on Monday (29 June), the leader of the opposition was questioned by The Independent’s Millie Cooke on claims that the UK is heading into a “summer of chaos” under the Labour Party. Asked if the benchmark for such chaos was established by the last Tory government, Ms Badenoch replied: “We paid for those things with our biggest defeat ever in our 200-year history, and we have learned from our mistakes.” “Many of the things that went wrong were making announcements before having the plan ready, that is what Burnham is doing again. It would be wrong of me to ignore that.”

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Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Manchester, is expected to set out his economic agenda on Monday in his first major speech since announcing he would stand for the Labour…

The Conservative leader lashed out ahead of a speech by the prospective prime minister, who is expected to be installed in No10 next month unopposed in place of Keir Starmer.

The Tory leader said Mr Burnham should sack Energy Secretary Ed Miliband

Kemi Badenoch spared no prisoners this morning as she delivered her first attack speech dedicated to Andy Burnham and his incoming Cabinet of radical left-wingers. The Tory leader…

Kemi Badenoch says Andy Burnham will make the same mistakes as former Conservative governments by “making announcements before having a plan ready”. During a press conference in…

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Kemi Badenoch is predicting a "summer of chaos" as Starmer steps away from governance and Andy Burnham promises a "No. 10 of the North."

His plan for the country is still vague, but there are clues to what he thinks, on topics from inheritance tax to welfare and social care, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Andy Burnham looks set to be the least scrutinised PM in modern times

Will Labour MPs dare ask themselves whether they were too hasty in pushing outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer out of office? Were they too eager to remove a PM who had…