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Joely Santa Cruz, Alicja Hagopian and Daniel Dunford, data journalists
Jun 22
The charts that tell us why Starmer resigned - and how he fared on his promises

Despite his government being elected with a huge majority of 172 in July 2024, Sir Keir's support base was described as "wide but shallow". Big promises on key issues, including easing the cost of living, restoring the NHS and dealing with an acute housing crisis, had been the cornerstone of his pledges to win over the electorate. Now, just under two years later, he has resigned. The exact timetable for his departure is unclear, but we know that he will become the shortest-serving Labour prime minister in history. His replacement will be the seventh prime minister in 10 years, following years of increasing instability and high turnover at the top of government. Cost of living Sir Keir has emphasised that cutting the cost of living was his government's "number one priority". Read moreStarmer tracker: Is the PM making progress towards his key policies? Consumer price inflation surged from 2.2% to 3.8% in Starmer's first year in power. But, despite the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on trade, it has since fallen back to 2.8%. That's still higher than the target rate, but lower than many experts predicted it would get to when it became clear that the Iran war would not be over quickly. The war added to a series of external shocks that also included Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on US imports. Sir Keir pledged to make the UK the fastest-growing economy in the G7 by the end of this parliament. While UK economic growth has been slow - at 1% in 2025 - the country is not alone in facing economic challenges, and is currently outperforming several G7 peers as the second-fastest growing economy in the group over the past 12 months. Britain's growth figures for March showed an unexpected rise, but the most recent figures - for April - showed a contraction of 0.1%. Tax thresholds While the Government has repeatedly promised not to increase taxes for working people, "stealth" tax increases through frozen tax thresholds mean many are paying more. Tax thresholds have been frozen since 2021 and are set to remain frozen until 2028. That means that as inflation leads to wage increases, we end up paying more tax on a higher proportion of our earnings - a process known as fiscal drag. Missing housebuilding targets Slow economic growth and persistent cost of living issues may have contributed to the prime minister's unpopularity, but they have also made it harder to deliver in other areas, like housing. Sir Keir said he wanted to "build baby, build", summing up his government's ambitious promise of creating 1.5 million additional homes before the next general election. Achieving it would represent a higher level of housebuilding than at any point since the post-war period. With the halfway point of this parliament fast approaching, housing delivery has fallen to its lowest level in nine years. Housebuilders have raised concerns that building is "flatlining" and no longer viable - particularly in London, where only 5,000 new homes were started in the latest year, against a target of 81,000. Based on analysis of new Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), which are a strong indicator of additional housing supply, Sky News estimates around 353,000 additional homes have been delivered under Labour, short of the 525,000 that would have been required so far to be on track to meet targets. While the Government has always maintained that the pace will increase towards the end of the parliament, the current shortfall of nearly 200,000 is close to a whole year's housebuilding at the current pace. NHS promises Fixing the "broken" NHS has been another key pledge under Sir Keir's leadership. The Government is quick to point out that NHS England's waiting list is down by more than 500,000 appointments, from 7.62 million in July 2024 to 7.11 million appointments in the latest figures for March 2026. It remains substantially higher than the 4.57 million appointments pre-pandemic in February 2020, however. More than one in 10 people in England are currently waiting for some sort of NHS treatment. Read moreWes Streeting claims he hit his NHS targets - this says otherwise The Government has a target that, by the time of the next election, no more than 8% of patients should wait more than 18 weeks to start their treatment. The figure was up at 41% when Labour took over in July 2024, and they had an interim target to have reached 35% by March 2026. They achieved that target in March, but fell back again in April so the latest figures are back underneath that target. Much of the improvement is also thanks to "unreported removals" - people removed from the waiting list for reasons other than receiving treatment. March 2026 had the highest number of "unreported removals" since the pandemic. Meanwhile, "trolley waits" - where patients wait for long periods in corridors for hospital beds - reached a new record high, with 554,000 waits of more than 12 hours in 2025. That was more than the total recorded between 2011 and 2022. Migration battle According to Donald Trump's analysis, delivered via his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Starmer has been forced to resign after "failing on two very important subjects - IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY". WatchFact-checked: Is Trump right about Britain having the highest energy prices? On immigration, Sir Keir can certainly point to some successes, although his record overall has been patchy. He inherited certain troubles from the previous Conservative government while also benefiting from the effects of the outgoing government's policies to reduce visa routes. Net migration was already in decline by the end of the Conservative government's tenure, but has fallen to just 204,000 year-on-year under Labour - down 68% from June 2024 levels - and is now inline with pre-Brexit and pre-Covid levels, the lowest in more than five years. Last year also saw the highest number of returns (38,000 in total) in nearly a decade, meaning more immigrants leaving the UK either by voluntary or enforced return. But one of Labour's pledges was to "smash the gangs", referring to people-smuggling gangs who facilitate deadly English Channel crossings. Small boat crossings skyrocketed under Sir Keir with more than 75,000 recorded under his leadership - more than any other prime minister. Both 2024 and 2025 were two of the highest years on record for illegal Channel crossings, behind the peak in 2022. Latest figures show crossings going down from their recent peak, however. The number of boats that have arrived in the last year is lower than at any point since 2020. But as the number of people per boat has been rising, the number of people that have crossed in the past 12 months remains above the level inherited by Labour. Although Sir Keir successfully passed the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act, alongside boosting enforcement staffing and powers by creating a Border Security Command, these have yet to meaningfully manifest in widescale prevention of small boat crossings. U-turns and scandals Since entering government, Sir Keir Starmer's Labour has been marred with political unrest and accused of rowing back on several of its manifesto commitments. Despite his massive majority, his own MPs forced him to change course on several important policy areas, like winter fuel payments for pensioners, personal independence payments for disabled people, and the benefit cap for parents with more than two children. Protests from the farming lobby also forced changes to his policy on inheritance tax for agricultural properties. And a legal challenge from Reform UK led to the government reversing a decision to cancel a significant number of council elections. Explore our timeline for more detail. The prime minister has also faced resignations and controversy from those closest to him, from two chiefs of staff to his deputy Angela Rayner. Arguably the most significant of these scandals has been the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, with subsequent revelations from the Epstein files revealing that the Labour figure had a much closer relationship with the convicted paedophile than previously believed. Sir Keir Starmer repeatedly faced criticism over the vetting process amid Lord Mandelson's resignation and later arrest. By-election defeat Rumours over a leadership challenge from Andy Burnham began last September around the time of the Labour Party conference, but the Manchester mayor was barred from running for a constituency seat in the Gorton and Denton by-election this year. The party lost the seat to the Green Party. When Mr Burnham was allowed to run, in Makerfield last week, the contrast was clear. Labour's vote share increased by 9.6 percentage points compared with the 2024 general election, and on an increased turnout too. Mr Burnham's victory was the first time since 1997 that Labour had secured a vote share increase at a by-election while in government. Read moreProfessor Rob Ford: Crunching the numbers - why Burnham's Makerfield by-election win is so significant Political performance Recent local elections across England, where Labour lost nearly 1,500 council seats and control of 40 councils, have ultimately forced Sir Keir Starmer's decision to no longer lead Labour into the next general election. Overall, Labour has defended 2,853 seats in local elections since 2024 and lost 1,697 of them - a loss rate of 59%. As a result, their share of total councillor numbers in England has dropped to just over 25% so far, although not all seats have had new elections in that time. The last time they had a smaller share of councillors was just before they lost the 2010 election. Labour also saw disastrous results in elections in Wales and Scotland. They lost control of the Welsh Senedd for the first time after their vote share fell to just 11.1%. They also recorded their worst result in a Scottish parliament election, winning just 17 of 129 seats in Holyrood, down from 22 in 2021. Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan resigned after losing her seat, while Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar placed the blame with Sir Keir, calling it "a big national wave and a general vibe that we couldn't change". That led to weeks of Sir Keir facing calls to resign from 100 of his own MPs, including his foreign secretary Yvette Cooper and former health secretary Wes Streeting. John Healey also resigned as defence secretary over a military funding dispute. General election threat Underpinning a lack of confidence in Starmer is the anxiety around Labour's prospects of remaining in power for a second term, which is looking increasingly difficult on current voting trends. Should voting patterns from recent local elections be replicated at the next general election, Sky's election expert Professor Michael Thrasher has projected a redistribution of each party's seats in the House of Commons. The result would be a hung parliament with no single party able to pass the threshold of 326 seats required for an overall majority, but with Reform as the largest party, and Labour's seats reduced to just 110 - which would be their lowest since 1931. Unpopular with the public Sir Keir delivered on some of his key manifesto promises - such as introducing the Renters' Rights Act which abolished no-fault evictions, among other improved rights for renters. The Employment Rights Act has also so far delivered enhanced rights for employees, with day-one entitlement to sick pay and other protections from April 2026. The prime minister's stance on Iran in resisting US President Donald Trump's pressure to become fully involved may also have contributed to a small recent bump in his net approval ratings. Despite this, Sir Keir remains unpopular overall, with 69% viewing him unfavourably in mid May according to polling by YouGov - down from a peak of 75% in January. Ultimately, it is the prime minister's popularity with the public - and future electability - that has been at the front of Labour MPs' minds. Compared with other recent resigning prime ministers after a similar length of time in office, Sir Keir is less popular than all but Liz Truss, at -38% approval overall. The Data and Forensics team is a multi-skilled unit dedicated to providing transparent journalism from Sky News. We gather, analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. We combine traditional reporting skills with advanced analysis of satellite images, social media and other open source information. Through multimedia storytelling we aim to better explain the world while also showing how our journalism is done.

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Jun 21
Jeremy Clarkson reveals 'aggressive' prostate cancer is in remission

The 66-year-old confirmed in an interview with The Times that a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test two months ago revealed no sign of the disease. Clarkson revealed in the latest episodes of the fifth season of Clarkson's Farm that he had been diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer that had been found early. The TV host has met up with former prime minister Lord David Cameron to talk about their prostate cancer diagnoses with other famous faces. He said: "I was talking to David (Cameron) about it earlier this morning. He said the amount of people that come up to him is mostly in public conveniences and say, if you hadn't owned up to it, I wouldn't have got checked, and they wouldn't have found it. "So now there's a group of us, (food writer) Giles Coren, David, me, one or two other people, and we meet for lunch every so often. "Everybody has different Gleason scores, and everybody has different Stockholm and PSA scores. We all compare notes and I actually get muddled with what mine were." Clarkson said the diagnosis had "landed harder than I thought it would". He added: "This is why I have to say to everybody who's reading this, please, please, please go and get checked. "It's not uncomfortable, it's not undignified, and it's a no-brainer. I did, and that's why I'm sitting here talking to you 11 months down the line." Speaking from a hospital bed at the end of the season finale, Clarkson revealed he had suffered from complications during treatment, which he told The Times had been caused by him resuming a course of tablets for his earlier vascular and cardiac problems. Read more from Sky News:Three people killed following fire in west LondonSky News podcast to become landmark TV show He said: "That was horrific and it was all my own fault." He continued: "Two or three weeks after the cancer operation, I thought I'd better put myself back on those blood thinners. Big mistake, huge." He said it resulted in a "very big emergency in the middle of the night" and the treatment required as a result of that was "horrible". The diagnosis came almost two years after the TV presenter underwent a heart procedure, which saw him fitted with two stents to improve blood flow to the heart. He said his doctor had told him to stop working following the operation and that he had been advised to replace work with golf in a column for The Sun at the time. Clarkson said: "I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man." The celebrity farmer previously stopped smoking after contracting pneumonia on holiday in Spain. In a post on the X account of his pub, The Farmer's Dog, Clarkson added: "The reason why I'm fine is because the doctors caught the prostate cancer early, and they caught it early because I got tested."

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Jun 22
Why did Sir Keir Starmer resign?

Speaking outside Number 10 on Monday morning, the PM said he accepts "with good grace" that Labour MPs do not want him to lead them into the next general election. Politics hub: Follow the latest updates The resignation comes less than two years after Labour's landslide win at the polls in 2024 - so where did it all go wrong? Here are some of the key moments that have contributed to Sir Keir's exit... Mandelson vetting scandal The Peter Mandelson vetting controversy was arguably the most significant scandal Sir Keir faced during his premiership. The influential Labour figure was announced as UK ambassador to the US in December 2024. But less than a year later, in September 2025, Mandelson was fired after leaked emails revealed he remained in contact with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution. The release of the Epstein files in February then revealed Lord Mandelson allegedly leaked information to the paedophile financier while serving as a Labour minister in 2009. In the wake of the revelations, Number 10 faced scrutiny over how Mandelson's appointment had been allowed in the first place - and it soon emerged that he had failed the security vetting process. Sir Keir survived the scandal, with his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney taking "full responsibility" for advising the PM to appoint Lord Mandelson and resigning from his position. Gorton and Denton loss Labour's first defeat of the year came in February, when the Greens' Hannah Spencer won the Gorton and Denton by-election. Labour had won the seat at the last general election by over 50%, but found itself pushed into third as Ms Spencer secured 40% of the vote, with Reform candidate Matt Goodwin in second place. The defeat was especially damaging as Sir Keir had blocked Andy Burnham from standing as Labour's candidate in the by-election. 👉 Tap here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 May local election results Less than three months after the Gorton and Denton result, most of the UK went to the polls with elections for councils in England, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd. It was a disaster all round for Labour, with the party losing more than 1,200 English council seats and - for the first time ever - control of the Welsh Senedd. The results led to more than 90 Labour MPs calling for Sir Keir to resign, including his foreign secretary Yvette Cooper and then health secretary Wes Streeting. Approval ratings Labour has struggled in the opinion polls - with Sir Keir's satisfaction ratings falling to the lowest level of any PM in the past 50 years. After winning the general election in July 2024, Labour was initially ahead in the polls for several months. But by October of that year, their rating had dropped below 30% and continued to slide to the mid-20s by early 2025. Read more:How - and when - a new PM will be selectedHow did Starmer fare on his promises? The second year of Sir Keir's premiership saw Labour's ratings fall further, dropping below 20% in October 2025, while Reform opened up a clear and sustained lead. The most recent Ipsos survey, from mid-May, suggested 16% of adults were satisfied with Sir Keir's performance and 76% were dissatisfied. This gave Sir Keir a net approval score of minus 60 - which is lower than any other score recorded by Ipsos for a PM two years after taking office. Burnham's Makerfield victory The final nail in the coffin for Sir Keir's stint as PM came last week, when Mr Burnham sailed to victory with his decisive Makerfield by-election win. The seat's wards had swung hard to Reform in the local elections but swung back just as hard to Labour, with the now former Manchester Mayor securing 54.8% of the votes. The win was vital for Mr Burnham, who needed to secure a seat in Westminster in order to put himself forward for the Labour leadership.

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Jun 22
Caroline Dubois calls out Alycia Baumgardner saying she is 'lost' while also hailing Irish boxing icon Katie Taylor

Dubois, who dropped Terri Harper en route to beating her rival world champion by unanimous decision in April returns as the UK's unified WBC and WBO lightweight world champion in a 10-round unified championship defence against American Amelia Moore. The bout contested at 135lbs with two-minute rounds features on the undercard of MVPW-06 at the bp pulse LIVE arena in Birmingham on August 29, where every fight on the main card will see a UK vs USA contest. Moses Itauma to fight Filip Hrgovic in high-risk heavyweight boutJoe Joyce insists Daniel Dubois rematch is 'an attractive option'Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOWBaumgardner in the pipeline? Alycia Baumgardner has previously insisted Dubois still needs to prove herself before the American will agree to fight the unified lightweight world champion. Dubois has taken aim at Baumgardner and called her out for a high-profile clash, saying the clash "has to happen sooner rather than later". "She's lost right now," said Dubois. "She's got no opponents. She wanted the Katie Taylor fight but that's not happening, she wanted the Amanda Serrano fight but that's not happening, so who's she going to fight? Absolutely nobody. "There's no one she can step into the ring with that's on my level. I say that with respect but I know I'm her biggest challenger. "We're going to build the fight. I want to become undisputed and then she's got no arguments. All we can do is to build and make that fight unavoidable, unmissable, and undeniable. That happens by me becoming undisputed." A 10-round junior middleweight championship unification fight between Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron will headline a main card in Birmingham and Dubois said: "It's a close fight - I'm split. Mikaela Mayer has got a bit more dimensions but then I wake up and think Chantelle Cameron is a beast. She's going to bring the pressure and she has the home advantage. "It's a 50-50 fight. I know it's going to be a great fight." 'Taylor is the GOAT' Trainer Shane McGuigan hinted at MVP's interest in a blockbuster showdown with Irish boxing icon Katie Taylor, who is set to end her stellar career with a fight against unbeaten French fighter Flora Pili at Croke Park in Dublin on Saturday September 5. "Katie Taylor is the GOAT," Dubois said. "She's a champion and she deserves to fight whoever she wants to fight. She sold out 80,000 which is phenomenal. It doesn't matter who is in the corner. This is about Katie Taylor. It's not about the fight! "She's getting the moment to sail off into the sunset exactly the way she wants to. I'll be supporting her. No one can discredit who she's fought and who she has been in the ring with and her tenacity throughout the years. "I would 100 per cent be backing myself [if I had the chance to fight her] and it would have been an awesome fight to have. I would have loved to have fought her straight out of the 2012 Olympics. "It's not going to happen and I'm not focussing on that. If there were no other women to fight then I would be upset, but I've got big names." Watch MVPW-06 in Birmingham, headlined by Mikaela Mayer v Chantelle Cameron and with Caroline Dubois also in action, live on August 29 on Sky Sports. Get Sky Sports or stream boxing with no contract.

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Jun 22
Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of historical rape and indecent assaults against children

The 63-year-old committed the crimes between 1985 and 2008, when the two women were children. He denied all the charges, calling them "simply not true" and "just unbelievable", but the jury on Monday convicted him of rape, 13 indecent assaults and four counts of gross indecency. The former MP, once Northern Ireland's best-known politician, stood with his hands folded and showed no reaction. Both victims gave evidence during the trial in Newry, as did Donaldson over two days earlier this month. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, was found to have aided and abetted his crimes. She faced a trial of the facts on mental health grounds, which tested the evidence but could not result in a criminal conviction. The former DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) leader was found guilty of nine indecent assaults and one rape, between 1985 and 1991, against the older of the two women (Complainant B). The other victim (referred to in court as Complainant A) was abused between 1999 and 2008 and said she was first abused when she was primary school age. She told the jury Donaldson used a light, possibly a torch, to look at her "private parts" and that she had told his wife about the incident. The woman told the court: "I knew by the look on her face she knew I was telling the truth… once she identified I was telling the truth, she did nothing about it." She said the couple had "laughed off" an incident where Donaldson put his tongue in her mouth, and claimed he touched her breasts "skin on skin" when she was a child. The jury heard Donaldson sent her a letter in 2020 expressing "regret" for "all the hurt, pain and distress I have caused". The former politician claimed it was about other behaviour and not related to sexual abuse. The older woman (Complainant B) told the court she remembered two incidents "vividly". She said Donaldson had put his hand down her underwear, pulled her legs apart with his feet and raped her. Like the other victim, she said it happened when she was of primary school age. The second incident she described was Donaldson lifting her top and touching her breasts when she was at secondary school. She told the court Eleanor Donaldson had witnessed part of the incident but "walked away". When challenged by the defence, she replied: "Everything I am saying is the truth… no matter how many questions people ask me it will never change that." 'Destroy their political reputation' The woman said some of the abuse by Donaldson was while she stayed at the Christian Family Centre in Armoy in the 1990s, when she was having problems with drugs. Claire Selfridge, daughter of the centre's founders, testified that Complainant B had told her she'd been abused in her bedroom. A police interview with Pastor Stephen Matthews was also played in court. He said she'd told him about the abuse but urged him not to contact the authorities as "it would destroy their political reputation" and she didn't want that. Audio of the Donaldsons' police interviews was also played in court. In one section, the former DUP leader was asked about the rape and replied: "I'm sorry, but I can't get my head around this notion." Asked about the claim he used a light to look at Complainant A's body, he told police he "wasn't doing anything untoward". Mrs Donaldson was heard telling officers in interview that the claims were a "massive, massive shock". Regarding the rape allegation, she told them: "I would say that didn't happen. Absolutely not, oh my goodness." Jeffrey Donaldson's lawyer, Kieran Vaughan KC, said there were "significant and fundamental issues" with the women's credibility. However, prosecutor Rosemary Walsh told jurors there was "no reason" for the women to lie. "What the evidence shows when it is pieced together is that they are telling the truth about what happened to them," she said in her closing speech. Jeffrey Donaldson has been remanded into custody and will be sentenced later this year. The judge told him to expect a "lengthy" sentence.

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Jun 19
Daveigh Chase, star of Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35

Chase, a former child star also known for her role as the villain in the 2002 US remake of the Japanese horror film The Ring, reportedly died on Tuesday from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. Her father, John David Schwallier, told The New York Times that Chase had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died. Mr Schwallier also told the outlet that his daughter had struggled with drugs since she was 13 years old, and that she had been estranged from her parents, who are divorced. He added that he had been in touch with Chase's boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, and arrived at the hospital where she was being treated just before she died. Chase is perhaps best known for her role as Lilo in the 2002 animated film, voicing the eponymous orphaned Hawaiian girl who adopts a genetically engineered extra-terrestrial, whom she names Stitch. She voiced the same character in the subsequent spin-off TV series, which first aired in 2003. For her role as Samara Morgan in The Ring, starring alongside Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts, Chase won an MTV movie award for best villain. She landed another prominent voice lead in the English dub of the 2001 Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away, and also appeared in the 2001 movie Donnie Darko and the 2003 show Oliver Beene. Read more from Sky News:Explainer: What's in the US-Iran deal?Teenager dies in horse-drawn carriage accident in New York Chase was born in Las Vegas and raised in Albany, Oregon. According to IMDb, she began singing and dancing at the age of three and starred in her first commercial - for Campbell's Soup - aged seven. An online fundraiser set up by her boyfriend has raised close to $4,000 as of Thursday. A post on the site read: "Many people know her as a talented childhood actor from 'Lilo & Stitch,' 'Spirited Away,' and 'Donnie Darko'. "But behind the scenes, she's faced more than her share of hardship."

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Jun 22
Andy Burnham meeting Labour MPs to 'win their confidence' as next PM

The former Manchester mayor is meeting groups of MPs from Monday, after being sworn in as Labour's newest MP, "to set out to them his programme, in order to win their confidence", Baroness Harman told Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast. Politics latest: Burnham sworn in as MP Questions have surrounded Mr Burnham, who won the Makerfield by-election on Friday, about his policies as he looks set to replace Sir Keir Starmer uncontested. If no other Labour MPs get enough nominations (81) to win a place on the ballot, he could become Labour leader, and therefore prime minister, as early as 17 July after nominations close the day before. Baroness Harman, who was in Gordon Brown's cabinet with Mr Burnham, said: "He needs to demonstrate that in the interim period between now and 16 July, that he has won the confidence of the overwhelming majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party. "And what he is doing from today is meeting groups of MPs, meeting them in order to set out to them his programme, in order to win their confidence. "I think he'll need to set out his programme as well to the public, because he hasn't been able to set out his big picture for the future of Britain, what he thinks about Britain's role in the world, what he thinks about major economic issues. "He will need to set all of those out now. "So, we're in for an important period, but he's going to need to keep up the momentum. He's got amazing momentum from that by-election and he's going to need to keep up the pace." Read more: How will a new PM be selected - and when will it happen? She added that Mr Burnham is a "novelty now" but said he has "also got experience because he's been in the cabinet" and has the experience. But, she added: "He's not tainted by this most recent cabinet's travails, so I'm very hopeful." She said when he was culture, media and sports secretary, "he didn't make a huge impact on me until it came to the Hillsborough issue". Mr Burnham was heckled and booed by a crowd of more than 24,000 people while delivering a speech at the 20th anniversary memorial service of the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy. He said this prompted him to change his perspective and persuaded Mr Brown to release all official documents relating to the disaster, leading to the creation of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which exposed the widespread police cover-up. He has continued to work closely with the bereaved families. Baroness Harman added: "I saw a real determination that he really stood for something, that this was an unpopular issue to be constantly raising in the cabinet."

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Jun 22
Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: No confirmed venue for heavyweight super-fight but no danger of collapse, says Frank Warren

Fury and Joshua are both former world champions and long-time rivals who have been on the brink of boxing before, only to see previous efforts come to nothing. The British stars have agreed to box later in 2026 but no date or venue has been confirmed, with mounting speculation that the contest could be held in the US rather than the UK. Moses Itauma to fight Filip Hrgovic in high-risk heavyweight boutJoe Joyce insists Daniel Dubois rematch is 'an attractive option'Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW But Fury vs Joshua could still potentially take place in a British stadium. "Nothing's been decided yet," Frank Warren, Fury's promoter, told Sky Sports. "Sela, who the contract's with with Tyson, and I assume the same with AJ, they obviously have their preference where it will go. Netflix, who will broadcast it, they're going to have their preference. At the end of the day everybody has got to agree and be satisfied." Regardless of location, Warren is adamant that Fury-Joshua will go ahead this year, as long as both Fury and Joshua win their respective warm-up bouts. Joshua is taking a tune-up bout in Jeddah against Kristian Prenga on July 25. Fury is looking to box again himself before meeting Joshua, but there is as yet no confirmed date or venue for that, either. Fury and Joshua must win their warm-up bouts, but then they should fight each other, potentially in November "It's on, the fight is on - unless either of them get beaten in these two fights, they're going to have the fight is on, no problems," Warren said. "The one thing is they've both signed up for a fight. AJ's got his fight in July, and Tyson I believe will have a [warm-up] fight, I don't know where it will be yet or the date for it and once they're out the way their fight will go late autumn. "I don't see any problems in getting this fight on. Everybody will get satisfied," Warren added. "Let them get their respective fights out the way - once that's done, then there will be an announcement."

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