Existing care workers could be exempt from UK’s tough new immigration rules
Ghanaian nurse Evans Sarbeng with resident Phyllis Padham at St Cecilia’s nursing home in Scarborough. Photograph: Gary Calton/The ObserverView image…
Andy Burnham vows to ‘bring back hope’ as he unveils his cabinet
Andy Burnham is the UK’s sixth prime minister in a decade. Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenAndy Burnham is the UK’s…
Briefing wars: how Labour ministers tried, and failed, to get into Burnham’s cabinet
‘We did not see this coming’: John Healey, who was until recently the defence secretary under Keir Starmer, has been…
Andy Burnham’s first Labour cabinet: who’s in and who’s out?
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Andy Burnham’s difficult first cabinet – a visual guide to the options and dilemmas
Composite: Guardian Design/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images The Makerfield MP enters No 10 as prime minister…
‘Bizarre choice’: business and Labour puzzle over Shabana Mahmood as future chancellor
‘Bizarre choice’: business and Labour puzzle over Shabana Mahmood as future chancellor The home secretary, favourite to take over at…
Andy Burnham confirmed as Labour leader with landslide support of MPs
Andy Burnham is expected to formally take over the Labour leadership at a special party conference on Friday. Photograph: Alastair…
Ex-Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins launches judicial review over his sacking – UK politics live
Good morning. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, will be in the Commons for much of the afternoon and she is…
More than half of asylum seekers rejected under tightened laws will remain in UK
Shabana Mahmood introduced a bill to parliament that proposes to charge asylum seekers £10,000 before they are given settled status.…
Doubling leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaigners
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood, who has called for Mike Tapp, one of her department’s junior ministers, to be sacked. Photograph:…