Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said reopening the Strait of Hormuz is essential to easing UK cost-of-living pressures after meeting Marco Rubio in Washington.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham said his devolution programme strengthens the case for a written UK constitution. His reforms let councils keep locally raised business rates from 2027 and English mayors retain a share of local income tax from 2028, without altering tax rates. Constitutional experts cautioned that adopting a codified constitution would be a major undertaking.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC the NHS "will collapse" unless England's social care system is reformed. He said he could not commit to a timetable but would not want to leave office without delivering "substantial change". He is due to set out his thinking in a speech on Wednesday, reportedly accelerating the Casey Commission.
A More in Common survey published on Sunday put Labour on 28%, up four points and ahead of Reform UK on 24%, with the Conservatives on 22%. It is Labour's first lead over Reform in the firm's polling since March 2025, following Andy Burnham's first week as Prime Minister. A YouGov poll on Friday gave Reform a two-point lead.
Speaking on the "Relentless" podcast, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the world is now "in the singularity," the point at which AI advances beyond human control. He framed it as hugely positive while acknowledging the stakes. The remarks follow a disclosed incident in which an OpenAI-powered AI agent accessed datasets belonging to Hugging Face.
