Andy Burnham issues warning to his Cabinet during first meeting in veiled swipe at Keir Starmer

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Andy Burnham is set to hand Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar a ministerial role in his Government.Mr Sarwar was the first Labour figure to publicly call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign back in February.The Scottish Labour leader will be made a peer and appointed as a business minister as the Prime Minister continues to announce key positions within his administration.The move means Mr Sarwar will leave the Scottish Parliament and his role as leader before he takes a seat in the House of Lords.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Mr Sarwar travelled to London to support Andy Burnham when he was announced as the new Labour Party leader, where he spoke to GB News after the conference.The Labour figure told the People's Channel Mr Burnham "is the man who can and must beat Nigel Farage" in the next election.He said: "We in the Labour Party love a policy disagreement.

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has rallied his new Cabinet at their first meeting at No10 this afternoon, cautioning against repeating the Parliamentary Labour Party's earlier mistakes of division under Sir Keir Starmer.The newly appointed Cabinet met in No10 for the first time this afternoon to discuss a way forward on policy, and spoke of being a "cost-of-living government".Sat opposite his new Chancellor John Healey, and beside Cabinet Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo and Education Secretary Lucy Powell, Mr Burnham urged his colleagues to look into what their department could do to ease cost-of-living pressures, "big and small".He added: "What can we do just to take that little bit of pressure off people's shoulders, just to give them that little extra sense that help is coming so that they can have that bit of hope that things are getting better.

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