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New Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel are greeted by staff as he walks into 10 Downing Street, London, for the first time as Prime Minister. Picture date: Monday July 20, 2026. Kin Cheung/PA Wire

Who has Andy Burnham picked to be in his Cabinet?
Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh Prime Minister in 10 years on Monday and moved swiftly to settle into the top job.

Labour party candidate Andy Burnham at Ashton Town FC in Ashton-in-Makerfield, after winning the Makerfield by-election which was triggered by the resignation of Josh Simons.

Andy Burnham: Who is 'King of the North' poised to become next PM

11th March 1974: Labour MP Roy Hattersley , Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in pin stripe suit. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Roy Hattersley obituary: The nearly man who battled to keep Labour together

Andy Burnham laughs at being placed next to Binface and a man dressed as a fox, Andy Burnham Makerfield MP - Makerfield by-election count at The Edge, Wigan.

Andy Burnham: From 'King of the North' to Prime Minister?

Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the Labour Party and member of Parliament, walks through the town centre to attend the Labour Party conference in Blackpool, 1988

Yorkshire-born 'giant of the Labour movement' dies aged 93

Roy Hattersley and Tony Benn on a walk about in Chesterfield

Labour’s ‘nearly man’ who fought to hold the party together

Sir Tony Blair (left) speaks with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in 2023. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Blair is trying to resurrect failed political settlement - Matt Bromley

Former health secretary Alan Milburn following the publication of the interim Milburn Report into Young People and Work. PIC: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Young people’s relationship with money is nonexistent - Sarah Todd

Lord Peter Mandelson. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Mandelson papers could have been even more embarrassing

Former health secretary Alan Milburn unveils his report. Credit: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Youth employment crisis is 'most significant challenge facing' the UK

Sheffield Lib Dem group leader Coun Martin Smith

Lib Dems go into opposition in Sheffield ahead of new leader being elected

Andy Burnham urged voters to back him to 'change Labour'

Andy Burnham pledges 'maximum devoluton' if elected to Parliament

Keir Starmer in Downing Street

Labour faces decimation in elections as leadership rivals eye No10

Suella Braverman speaks at a Reform UK event. PIC: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Equality is not ‘pernicious’ - Matt Bromley

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at a Board of Peace. PIC: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

Drill, baby, drill, reopen all coal fields and start fracking - YP Letters

Huddersfield lad Harold Wilson, pictured, made Wakefield MP Walter Harrison his deputy chief whip while he was Prime Minister in the 60s and 70s. Credit: Getty

The Usual Channels: fascinating book lifts lid on murky world of whips

Baroness Anne Longfield will chair the national inquiry into grooming gangs. PIC: Russell Sach/Children's Commissioner for England/PA Wire

Anne Longfield is the right person to lead inquiry - Jayne Dowle

Tim Waring, prime residential, GSC Grays.

The housing market needs change but let’s get it right - Tim Waring

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street. PIC: Leon Neal/PA Wire

Storm clouds are on the horizon for Labour - Ismail Mulla

Sir Keir Starmer with Lord Peter Mandelson. PIC: Carl Court/PA Wire

The damage has already been done by Mandelson saga

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during the first meeting for the reshuffled Cabinet in Downing Street, London. PIC: Toby Melville/PA Wire

Wrong for a ‘Northern working-class woman’ to prop up Starmer - Jayne Dowle
There’s a job going as Labour deputy leader and I’ve heard they’re looking for a ‘Northern working-class woman’ to fill the Angela Rayner-sized hole the hapless MP for Ashton-under-Lyne has left behind.
Jayne Dowle

Keir Starmer

Brutal gift from backbenchers on Starmer's election anniversary

How change in NHS contracts led to dentistry desert in Yorkshire

Dentist Dr Mark Green at his practice - Alpha Dental Care Kirkbymoorside, West End, Kirkbymoorside, York.Picture: James Hardisty. Date: 27th May 2025.

NHS dentistry: Government must look to its conscience to fix NHS dentistry

A voter placing a ballot paper in a ballot box. PIC: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Labour needs to be wary of Reform threat - Ismail Mulla

David Prescott is running the London Marathon next week in memory of his father John

John Prescott's son opens up about father's life, legacy and Alzheimer's fight

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will be facing their biggest rebellion so far over the welfare reforms. Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA

Special report: Starmer to face biggest rebellion yet on welfare

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Doncaster. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Alarm bells for Labour across Yorkshire as MPs head for recess

The Guildhall on Alfred Gelder Street, Hull

How Hull & East Yorkshire’s new Mayor will change local politics

Riders and hounds during the Tedworth Hunt's Boxing Day meet in Pewsey, Wiltshire. PIC: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Why is Labour still obsessed with taking on hunting? - Polly Portwin

There is strength of demand for quality rural property in the Yorkshire Dales and North Yorkshire. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Yorkshire housing market forecasts for 2025 by those who know best

February 4, 2006: Deputy prime minister and Hull East MP John Prescott outside the city's first Decent Homes showhouse in Anson Road, Bilton Grange, after officially opening it.

John Prescott: All the best pictures following the former Hull MP's death
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced.
Rachael Grealish

Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died at the age of 86 after a battle with Alzheimer's

John Prescott: Former deputy prime minister and Hull MP dead at 86

Money Saving Expert's Martin Lewis. Credit: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Martin Lewis urges Labour to widen Winter Fuel Payment amidst price cap hike

Rachel Reeves is under fire from Yorkshire Post readers.

Furious readers have their say about Labour's winter fuel allowance cut

Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner as she marshals an easyJet plane arriving from Amsterdam onto the stand during a visit to London Stansted airport. PIC: Joe Giddens/PA Wire.

What now for left behind areas in Yorkshire? - Jayne Dowle

Diane Abbott speaking at a protest in 2021. PIC: Ian West/PA Wire

Labour cannot afford to alienate its core voters - Jayne Dowle

Yorkshire economy could be hit hard by Conservative university cuts

Rachel Reeves: Who is she? Meet the chess champion

Bank of England Monetary Policy Report press conference on May 9, 2024. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Bank of England’s decision on interest rates is disappointing - YP Letters

Former prime minister Tony Blair (left) and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer discussing politics during the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain Conference in central London. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Nostalgia holds too much sway in politics - Jayne Dowle

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting

Labour to tackle 'injustice' of children living shorter lives in Yorkshire

Wombwell.

Experts call for parties to bring back plan to cut health inequality

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson during a visit to a school. PIC: Ian West/PA Wire

Labour is on track to ‘win-lose’ at the next general election - Matthew Flinders

Whitby Lifeboat Station, Whitby, East Yorkshire.

Battleground Yorkshire: How 'Whitby Woman' could deny Labour a majority

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a Boots pharmacy. PIC: Ian West/PA Wire

Labour can't afford to be complacent despite poll predictions - Jayne Dowle

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to the InchDairnie Distillery in Glenrothes, Fife.

Analysis: Expect a Cameron-style victory in 2024, not a Blair one

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech at the National Composites Centre at Bristol and Bath Science Park. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer seems intent on boring us all to death - Bill Carmichael

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, during a visit to a school in Dagenham. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

What alternative is Sir Keir Starmer actually offering? - David Behrens

Labour Party candidate Keir Mather celebrates winning with 16,456 votes the Selby and Ainsty by-election on July 21, 2023 in Selby (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Keir Mather says he’s ‘heard far worse’ than being ‘Baby of the House’

Labour leader Keir Starmer. Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images.

What is Keir Starmer offering to Yorkshire? It's time he told us - Jayne Dowle

Rory Stewart made string criticisms of Labour's criminal justice policy at an event in Leeds

Rory Stewart condemns Keir Starmer for 'disgusting' prison policy

File photo dated 21/03/19 of Keir Starmer (left) and the then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arriving in Brussels ahead of a meeting with Michel Barnier.

Injustice to Corbyn not only reason for Left to rediscover voice: Jon Trickett

Sir Keir Starmer (centre) with Labour's shadow Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, (2nd from right) and Former Education Secretary and Chair of the Council of Skills, Lord Blunkett (2nd from left) and other Council of Skills advisors, in the Houses of Parliament, London, as their 'Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain' report is launched. The report, commissioned by the Labour leader last November, will make recommendations on driving up skills across England. Picture date: Wednesday October 26, 2022.

Education "revolution" needed, Labour says

The Labour leader spoke to the Yorkshire Post following his speech at the Labour Regional Conference in Barnsley

Labour leader pledges devolution, industry jobs, and levelling up for Yorkshire

Kit Malthouse is the new Education Secretary. PIC: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images

Change in policy on grammar schools leaves Labour an open goal - Jayne Dowle

Children seem to be low on the political agenda but poverty and the rising cost of living is damaging the life chances of many of them. Picture: Adobe Stock

Silence on child poverty from potential Conservative Party leaders - Jayne Dowle

Boris Johnson.

Labour must prepare while Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weak - David Blunkett

What are Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's chances of winning the next election?

Why Sir Keir Starmer is not guaranteed election success – Rob Potts

John McDonnell oversaw Labour's 2019 General Election campaign - and says he hopes to help the party avoid the mistakes that were made.

John McDonnell: Labour can learn from my mistakes to win next election

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