Exclusive: Poll shows policies such as rent control and higher wealth taxes could fend off Reform UK in key seats

Frontrunner to be next PM expected to announce a 10-year mission to raise living standards.

Andy Burnham, who is likely to be Britain's next prime minister, is announcing plans to give more powers to local government as part of efforts to spread wealth and economic growth

In Burham's Britain, there will be "good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart." But platitudes aside, this agenda is deeply radical.

Labour's likely next PM set out a 10-year economic plan in his Manchester speech, promising greater regional powers and a shift away from trickle-down economics. #EuropeNews

The frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, Andy Burnham, vowed in a speech Monday to "bring about the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen" if he…

Burnham has proposed 'the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen'

Plans include greater regional power, public ownership of utilities and the end of trickle-down economics

Exclusive: Poll shows policies such as rent control and higher wealth taxes could fend off Reform UK in key seats

As for rent controls on private housing, many might assume there would be no cost to tenants, with landlords absorbing all of it themselves.