Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he expects to find common ground with Donald Trump during their first face-to-face meeting in New York on Tuesday. Both leaders are attending the United Nations General Assembly. Burnham said two previous phone calls established a productive relationship, adding that he was looking forward to meeting the US President and searching for shared ground. More than 23,000 people have been killed or seriously injured in […]

Few meals inspire quite as much opinion as breakfast. Lunch can be whatever happens to be available, dinner can change completely from one day to the next, but breakfast seems to come with rules. Everybody has a preference, most people have strong opinions about what belongs on the plate, and somewhere along the line we have all decided that our way of doing breakfast is perfectly reasonable while somebody else's […]

The UK will provide defensive military support to Saudi Arabia against attacks from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has confirmed. Speaking on his way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Mr Burnham said he agreed to the request following advice from the Defence and Foreign Secretaries. The support will be limited to air-to-air refuelling for Saudi planes on defensive missions, utilizing one RAF Voyager […]