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Burnham is floating a new tax on workers to fund social careAndy Burnham opening the door to a dedicated social care tax is the clearest sign yet that Greater Manchester's mayor is positioning for a national conversation, not just a regional fix. Social car…Thames Water's creditors offer Labour a golden share to dodge the nationalisation billHanding the government a golden share costs lenders almost nothing and buys them the one thing they actually want: keeping £15 billion of debt off the taxpayer's balance sheet while retaining econo…Burnham's chancellor pick spooks the gilt market before he's even unpackedGilt yields moved before John Healey had finished his first briefing, which shows markets are pricing a looser fiscal stance rather than reacting to a change of face at the top. Healey inherits a T…Nationalisation is starting to look like a habit, and creditors have noticedThames Water's lenders are lining up lawyers before Andy Burnham has even confirmed a takeover, which tells you how little faith bondholders now have in getting fair treatment from a Labour governm…Grid delays are now the binding constraint on Britain's AI ambitionsPolitical backing means nothing if the National Grid can't deliver the power on time, and that's exactly the wall a Starmer-backed AI data centre has hit. The project is now seeking alternative pow…Andy Burnham's devolution blueprint is more serious economics than most commentary allowsGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has published a detailed economic plan for devolving fiscal and regulatory powers to English city-regions, including control over skills budgets, planning refo…Starmer's five billion pound drone commitment is industrial policy dressed as defence spendingThe government is announcing five billion pounds in drone procurement and development funding today, structured to seed a domestic manufacturing base rather than procure off the shelf from Israeli …Burnham's Manchesterism needs a tax lever to move from vision to policyThe economic case for English city-region devolution is well-evidenced. The implementation gap is the absence of hypothecated local tax-raising powers, and Treasury silence on that specific ask is …Starmer out: sterling takes the hit the gilt market refused toKeir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister, ending a tenure that never found its footing between a mandate it had and a public it lost. The pound fell on the news while gilts held, which tells you…Labour loses first councils as Starmer faces revoltKeir Starmer's political obituary is being drafted 22 months after his landslide. Early results show Labour losing its first councils, with projections pointing to over 1,000 lost seats from 2,196 …Labour faces 1,850 seat wipeout as local elections test StarmerPolling expert Lord Hayward predicts Labour will lose 1,850 council seats in today's local elections, 75% of those defended, while Reform UK gains 1,550 seats mainly in white working-class areas. C…Miliband emerges as Labour's real power brokerEd Miliband controls the biggest spending department, the most politically sensitive policies, and increasingly the government's entire economic strategy. His energy and climate brief now touches e…Labour's energy price reality check hits voters hardMost Brits are furious with Labour over rising energy costs — not because the government caused them, but because it promised to fix them without explaining how. The tax fears mounting around Westm…