NEW: Hearing whispers that John Healey is set to renege on the miners’ pension promise which Burnham campaigned on — will go down like cold sick in the many coalfield seats where Labour MPs are already fighting an uphill battle against Reform

EXC: Ministers poised to break promise to former miners over £1.2bn pension fund Labour MPs tell me they are ‘furious’ and ‘very disappointed’ about the last-minute decision They are now making urgent representations to No 10, Treasury and whips ahead of tomorrow’s Budget politicshome.com/news/articl…

John Healey’s resignation was “the nail in the coffin” for Starmer’s government, says @darrenpjones “I just knew at that moment, that was it.” So how does he feel that the now-Chancellor is adopting the same policy he resigned over?

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has sought to inject a sense of optimism into the country, promising 'growth in every postcode' — but as his 100-day anniversary approaches, do voters feel he's delivering for Britain? Here's what Labour swing voters think: ft.trib.al/75EMund

Royal Mail should be back in public hands. After years of missed delivery targets, Royal Mail has proven it can’t be run effectively by the private sector. That’s why I’ve called on the Government to renationalise it. If we fail to act, we risk losing Royal Mail for good.

Well The unsayable has just been said aloud to Shelagh Fogarty on LBC. The caller said that 100 days had been wasted to cheap populism. Burnham has spent the the time communicating badly and having to be explained, announcing work of 24/26 as his own and delaying any new ideas

To give a bit of context to this, this was during the phase where Andy was trying to suck up to Corbyn, hence the Corbyn argument for Brexit that he is developing here. He didnt believe this before this, and he didnt believe this after he was selected as Mayor.

NEW: Sir Keir Starmer’s policy director urges Burnham to double down on “mechanically cutting the rate of inflation” to lower mortgage rates. Writing publicly for the first time since leaving No10, Stuart Ingham says the PM should use “any additional fiscal room” to lower prices including by sustaining the VAT cut on energy bills beyond March 2027. He says this will feed through to mortgage interest rates if the Bank of England can be persuaded to hold or cut them. He argues in today’s @telegraph that for Labour “just about nothing is more important” than the cost of living, and points out that Starmer beat the Tories by 17 points among mortgage holders in 2024, after losing by 10 points among the same group in 2019. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

Breakfast.

Supermarkets run out of water and baked beans as Britons rush to stockpile after Labour's call for emergency kits gbnews.com/news/supermarkets…

EU. Of course Burnham didn't tell the cabinet what he was going to say. How could he? He doesn't know himself until it comes out of his fkin mouth. Oh ffs. We had a cautious PM with heft who was getting results and now we've got this. Some mornings it's just too much. #R4today

Andy Burnham is proven to be talking rubbish on Brexit and small boats by his own Home Secretary. She knows what she is talking about. He does not. Are they even talking to each other?

Chancellor orders cabinet to find cuts with UK facing ‘economic storm’ thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…