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The Welsh government has reached a budget agreement with Welsh Labour, securing an extra £60m for children with additional learning needs after earlier failed negotiations.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock says he believes Andy Burnham intends to take the UK back into the European Union, telling la Repubblica the prime minister's commitment is 'authentic'.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs he will pursue deeper cooperation with the EU on youth mobility, food and drink, and energy at next month's summit, claiming the agreements could add £10bn a year to the economy by 2040.
Labour has signalled it will put unsustainable debt on the G20 agenda when the UK takes the chair next year, as heavily indebted developing countries absorb the worst of global bond market turmoil.
Labour's deputy leader says the party is winning back leftwing voters disillusioned under Keir Starmer, after Sagal Abdi-Wali held Holborn and St Pancras against the Greens.
Andy Burnham's Labour has held Sir Keir Starmer's former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, while the Greens more than tripled their vote share to 33% yet failed to win, according to a Guardian editorial.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
Labour has retained Holborn and St Pancras with a majority of 3,364, a result John Curtice said leaves the party better placed than six months ago but less popular than in 2025, while John Harris writes that the Greens have forfeited ground won under Zack Polanski's leadership.
Zack Polanski says he will remain Green Party leader despite losing the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and facing calls to resign from within his own party over a conference motion on Zionism.
