(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/3cSuFemE7-A) There are two ways of looking at it. A pathetic little fail, or the beginnings of the Burnham revolution. For sure there was nothing much to see here. But on one level that’s not to be wondered at, given the violent headwinds that the imminent midterm elections in America are widely expected to whip up. When it comes to messing us Brits around, the US of A has form. Chancellor John Healey’s inaugural and hopelessly over-s

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Tydz2_-S-50) Love it or hate it, the budget is a big deal. Now, finally, only a few sleeps away, there’ll be more to it than the inevitable mind-numbing tsunami of numbers. It’ll also give a clue as to the new Andy Burnham-led regime’s direction of travel. And the Chancellor’s top priority will be to echo the Prime Minister’s message of hope – without frightening the horses. Guy Fawkes night might be looming ever closer, but what John

Behind the ever more quick-fire and impulsive news cycle two standouts are staring us in the face. The Prime Minister’s moves towards reversing Brexit and the US President siding with Russia against Ukraine. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, these are more closely related than they might appear. Put simply, the world map is being redrawn in real time. Of course the pack could get shuffled again, perhaps even as soon as next month, but for now the picture i

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/BW8K7HeGp-8) Normally, the party conference season is one big yawn. Most of the coverage fit for fish and chip wrapping almost before the ink’s dry on the page. But this year was different. Very different, as the three weeks of conflicting ideas will define debate for the next three years. Labour’s win in Thursday’s central London by-election was just a spin-off. The contest on Keir Starmer’s old patch after he’d been biffed out of Nu

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/_882GO8Ot7s) Though that slogan at Labour’s Liverpool get-together last week comes with a mass of caveats, there has been a gear change at Westminster. For the first time since the government’s big win at the last election it’s now looking ready to make use of its majority. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, it’s clearly clocked the ancient Greek saying: ‘United we stand, divided we fall.’ That’s not to say that the

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/XXh1w1Isf2g) Party conferences don’t normally add up to a hill of beans. But the Labour Party Conference getting under way now in Liverpool is different. Partly because it gives our new Prime Minister his first chance to get the fans onside, and partly because the latest mega-poll gives them a reason to do as they’re told. It’s been a long time coming. For the past year the spectre of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party forming the next govern

(Read on, or view here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxrRgbVYO_E) The oncoming party conference season promises a mass of wacky ideas, impulsive headlines, and largely meaningless flimflam. But the underlying and real question is exactly what the Chancellor’s planning for next month’s budget. His choices will likely add up to the make or break for Andy Burnham. At the extreme end of the getting-it-wrong spectrum, think Liz Truss. Her squinty-eyed take on tax cuts s