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The Lead Untangles: The false claims about Andy Burnham’s business interests
A piece of misinformation surrounding Andy Burnham’s wife’s business interests has resurfaced since the Makerfield MP’s bid for leadership.
In 2022, a rumour surfaced that Burnham’s wife, Marie-France van Heel, would gain financially from...
Andy Burnham starts in the right place: power
Andy Burnham delivering his speech on Monday outlining his vision for the country
There was a line buried in Andy Burnham’s speech yesterday that mattered more than almost anything else.
Britain, he argued, doesn’t simply need a change o...
From Leave to Reform: The decade that destroyed British politics
Vote Leave campaigners during the 2016 referendum Derek Bennet/Wikimedia
Brexit was supposed to be the answer. For decades, the nature of Britain’s relationship with Europe had been the question that would just not go away. It destroyed po...
Andy Burnham votes for net zero – but will climate action survive?
Rumours suggest Burnham might make Miliband his Chancellor of the Exchequer
Andy Burnham has uncovered a new problem that every would-be Prime Minister dreads: a policy area with hardly any safe ground left to stand on.
This week, the fre...
Brexit has claimed a sixth prime minister
Sir Keir Starmer in France last week Pic: Number10/Flickr
What was Keir Starmer’s original sin?
Was it winter fuel? The freebies ‘scandal’? His unambitious tax and spend plans? Peter Mandelson? Was it his dullness, his lack of charisma, h...
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Senior editors writing and editing across The Lead and The Lead North's titles including The Lancashire Lead, The Blackpool Lead, The Teesside Lead, The Southport Lead and The Calderdale Lead
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Adam Barnett is a freelance journalist and UK News Reporter at DeSmog who has reported for the Guardian, Politico, Financial Times and Private Eye. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and a former BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
Political journalist & broadcaster Westminster editor @ The Lead UK Presenter @ FUBAR radio Chatting @ Oh God What Now, Pod Save The UK, The Bunker
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Freelance journalist writing about Stoke/Staffs, travel & lifestyle. Liverpool FC / Port Vale fan. Vegetarian
Journalist, northerner in London. Author of MIXED/OTHER (Orion) BELIEVE (Headline). Senior Editor @TheLead.
Hannah Fearn is a freelance journalist specialising in social affairs. She is the former opinion editor of The Independent and is based in South London.
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