Britain political correspondent, @TheEconomist. Chairman of the @housmansoc. Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg. Get in touch: hugogye@economist.com
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Burnham sat down with @TheEconomist this week for his first foreign policy-focused interview, explaining how he plans to put Britain back at the centre of the world stage and why doing so passes the 'Makerfield test'.
Read the interview here: economist.com/britain/2026/1…
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Polls have become more accurate in recent years despite growing difficulties in gathering responses, my colleagues @TheEconomist have calculated: economist.com/international/…
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🚨 Breaking Athelstan News 🚨
Culture Sec @lisanandy has asked ceremonials minister @Steph_Peacock to organise a “fitting commemoration” for England’s 1,100 birthday
Tory @Rebecca_SPaul suggested “commemorative coins, stamps, special lessons in schools, Athelstan on Trafalgar Square’s 4th Plinth”
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Not sure anyone has spotted this - @Miatsf tells @BBCJustinR that Clean Power 2030 is now a 'stretch target'. Comes after @AngelaRayner used exactly the same language to describe building 1.5m houses - so that's two really big manifesto promises that are being downgraded.
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Legendary bowler James Anderson has extended his career by signing for Surrey 🟤🤝
Amid interest from multiple clubs, the 44-year-old has agreed a move to The Oval and could play on beyond the 2027 season.
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Jensen Huang must go
We argue in @TheEconomist that his position is untenable
"Like many powerful leaders, he came to believe that he was too important for the normal rules to apply to him."
But he is not the only one. Howard Lutnick has failed to stem the flow of chips to China. More heads should roll
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An AUKUS update. "An American commodore will command the American navy’s newly set-up Submarine Squadron 3 from Stirling. When The Economist visited, secure communication equipment was being installed to let him talk to the Pentagon over classified channels." economist.com/asia/2026/11/1…
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To be fair it wasn't speculation, Burnham said it on the record to @HugoGye in his interview with the Economist.
"We may go into the new year, to be honest ... December or January, I think we will need to leave that open."
Interesting - less than a week since he proactively floated the idea of a delay in @TheEconomist interview
For this week's Blighty newsletter I've taken a last look back at my interview with Andy Burnham
He set out his stall as an AI booster - and insisted he's not bothered about Badenoch *or* Farage
@TheEconomist subscribers can sign up here: economist.com/newsletters/bl…
Burnham lavished praise on AI minister Kanishka Narayan and said tech would improve the state's approach to eg healthcare & justice
You can read the piece on our site: economist.com/britain/2026/1…
Interesting to see Antonia Romeo acknowledge concerns about the way that AI allows the public to engage with the state at a volume that could overwhelm it (from her annual lecture last night gov.uk/government/speeches/r…)
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‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex
The full investigation - after a failed high court attempt to stop the Guardian and ITN from publishing - by @MaeveMCC & @ohrhealy
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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In today's @Telegraph, I respond to some interesting claims made by archaeologists last week...
*Insert caveat about not choosing the headline here*
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Yet more evidence (from @YouGov) that Kemi Badenoch is better placed to pick up Reform voters than Nigel Farage is to take Tory ones
(details at yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55…)
While @dantomlinsonmp is not the most impartial observer of polling... he is TBF right that notwithstanding the Tories' success in overtaking Reform, poll after poll shows the 'Burnham bounce' is significant and (so far) sturdy
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BREAKING:
💥Tory support plummets by three points as Badenoch popularity crashes in wake of latest mis-step.
💥 Conservatives less popular than at 2024 General Election, extinction levels of support.
💥 Burnham retains significant lead over all opposition parties.
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'In this decade alone, though, American corporates have kowtowed to woke activists, then to Maga and now to the Democratic mainstream, as the political weather changed'
Janan Ganesh on why liberals should limit their triumphalism: ft.com/content/3370e949-4a32…
