Scoff at cheaper bus fares and No 10 North if you like, but Andy Burnham knows what he’s doing | Jonathan Freedland
Andy Burnham and Helen Godwin, Mayor for the West of England, pose with locals at a bus station in Bath,…
Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told
Andy Burnham during a visit to a bus station in Bath on Wednesday to promote his £2 fare cap. Photograph:…
Burnham to review early prisoner release scheme amid anger over potential freeing of PC Harper’s killers – UK politics live
We have more from Bath where the prime minister has been speaking to reporters. Andy Burnham has indicated that he…
Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2
Broad Street in Birmingham. The measure will apply across England except London. Photograph: Aleksey Zotov/AlamyView image in fullscreenBroad Street in…
Infrastructure cuts to pay for defence will cost UK 10,000 jobs, analysis shows
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves visit an aeronautics factory in Berkshire. Researchers believe defence supply chains are highly international and…
Ministers ‘furious’ over cuts to road projects to fund defence plan
Hamish Falconer said he was disappointed by the uncertainty over the A46 upgrade programme which was ‘well advanced, long awaited…
Pause HS2 reset until you are confident it can be delivered, NAO tells ministers
Pause HS2 reset until you are confident it can be delivered, NAO tells ministers Spending watchdog says high-speed rail project…
‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity
Politicians and economists have raised concerns over the ‘financial fragility and sharp cost cutting’ created by private equity-backed firms. Composite:…
Will Andy Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state?
Will Andy Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state? In the first of a series on nationalisation,…
A year after nationalisation, is South Western Railway delivering?
South Western’s livery is described by one critic as ‘effortfully deconstructed’. Peter Hendy said nationalisation was ‘cutting red tape’. Photograph:…