An inquest has opened into the former MP’s death as police charge man with murder

’If anyone’s going to do it, it will be him’, says Manchester homelessness charity boss

The prime minister has conducted a brutal purge of Starmer loyalists and made some shock appointments to key government roles. Here, The Independent looks at the main winners and losers of Andy Burnham’s reshuffle

Andy Burnham has hinted at tax reforms, with some of his closest aides and allies publicly having called for wealth taxes

Defence could be one of the winners under the new chancellor, who is likely to increase military spending in Andy Burnham’s government

The personal allowance has been frozen for five years, pulling more people into paying tax

Prime minister says his first instruction is to end rough sleeping and insists he does not want to leave Downing Street before the social care crisis is fixed

The new prime minister and his foreign secretary face immediate decisions over how to deliver foreign policy and development ambitions after spending cuts and years of upheaval. Liz Cookman reports

Donald Trump previously described the new prime minister as ‘the mayor of a town’

Our community are divided over Andy Burnham’s first speech as Prime Minister – from comparisons to Tony Blair’s opening day in office, to scepticism over a rough sleeping pledge he already missed once in Manchester