The one policy announcement was: tech companies must stop children from sending or receiving naked images of themselves, or Starmer will change the law. Two other tidbits: AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals, and the government has launched a new AI jobseeking tool…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”