There comes a point in every premiership when the folksy gestures stop mattering, and the country watches instead what a leader does with power under pressure. Andy Burnham has reached that point on Pc Andrew Harper's case, and by any honest measure, he has failed the test. Here is what he must now do, and how the public can force his hand.
Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026Britain’s Child Maintenance Service covers 1.1 million children, yet unpaid maintenance has reached £791.2 million, nearly half of parents on both sides call their assessments very unfair, and the standard formula ignores one parent’s entire income. With the government actively reviewing the calculation, this opinion piece argues the public must seize the moment, sign the Great British PAC petition, and demand a system that counts both parents, respects shared care, and shows its working.
Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?
Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026An internal email has revealed an NHS trust will make "no immediate changes" to its policy of placing men who identify as women on female wards — despite new EHRC statutory guidance. JK Rowling responded within hours, pledging to fund legal challenges through her Women's Fund. Now the Great British PAC is offering to help affected patients and staff build cases ready for funding.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026Prison recalls in England and Wales have hit a record 51,419, overtaking releases for the first time and threatening to consume the capacity created by Sir Andy Burnham's early release scheme, the probation watchdog has warned. With the estate at 87,342 inmates against a 89,800 ceiling, ministers face collapse by November unless the recall pipeline is fixed.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026The chief executive of St Mungo's has told Andy Burnham he must urgently respond to Britain's rough sleeping emergency, as a sprawling encampment on Euston Road, in Sir Keir Starmer's own constituency, exposes the gap between the Prime Minister's £340 million pledge and the reality on the streets. With rough sleeping at a record high and one in four rough sleepers now a foreign national, how Burnham handles this crisis will reveal what he truly believes government is for.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026It always begins innocently: a market opening here, a mobility scheme there. Now a plan circulating among Andy Burnham's most senior officials would extend Britain's nuclear umbrella across Europe in exchange for single market access. The question is no longer whether Britain drifts back toward Brussels, but how fast.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, twice refused on live radio to commit to implementing EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces, despite a Supreme Court ruling that "woman" in the Equality Act means biological sex. Nine of the region's ten councils have taken no action in fifteen months.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026On a stretch of scrubland outside Dunkirk, a glossy leaflet in sixteen languages is teaching migrants how to time a small-boat crossing of the English Channel and how to claim asylum in Britain. Retrieved this week by Reform UK's Lee Anderson, the pamphlet has thrown a spotlight on the humanitarian architecture, and the £662 million of British money, that surrounds Europe's most contested border.
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026The UK's statistics watchdog has ruled that Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament when he claimed the Government would spend "£270bn more on defence than we would otherwise have done". The figure was, in fact, the military's entire planned budget, not an increase. The real uplift is less than 10 per cent of what he told MPs, and the parliamentary record remains uncorrected.
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households across Britain face eviction from council and housing association properties under sweeping Conservative proposals unveiled by Kemi Badenoch. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Helen Whately, framed the plan as a decisive break with a welfare settlement that has turned the United Kingdom, in Mrs Badenoch's words, into a "cash machine for the world".
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026A teenager claiming "anxiety" benefits can now receive £100 a week more than a peer working part‑time on the minimum wage. With 1.4 million Britons drawing mental‑health payments and welfare outpaying work for 625,000 households, has the state deliberately engineered a client class of permanent dependents?
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026Stories originally reported by our sister title, the Conservative Post. Join the PAC to get them first.
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