Immigration minister says he ‘won’t be intimidated’ to drop his views as row with home secretary escalates – UK politics live

Mike Tapp wrote a piece for the Times calling for overseas care workers to be exempt from hardline immigration changes

The chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, Ruth Curtice, has written an (online) letter to Andy Burnham, breaking down the major challenges he faces and the likely trade offs he will be constrained by if he becomes prime minister.

She argues that addressing cost-of-living pressures on households and pursuing “more radical” reforms to support growth should be among his main priorities.

Any extra borrowing comes with big costs, and you will need to continue the painful path of consolidation your predecessor started.

UK borrowing continues to be more expensive than in other G7 countries.

Questions are being asked in the depleted ranks of the Labour left about how radical the political shift from Starmer to Burnham could be. Multiple leftwingers said they were cautiously optimistic. Several pointed to a new blueprint for “Manchesterism” in an essay by Mathew Lawrence, who is close to Burnham and has worked with him regarding his stance on public control of utilities.

“If you read that essay you think ‘fantastic stuff’,” said Aaron Bastani, a co-founder of the leftwing media platform Novara Media. “But it’s not just about the motifs, it’s about who’s in the cabinet and who are the influential figures behind him.”