{"id":172266,"date":"2026-07-27T23:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/poll-shows-labour-ahead-of-reform-uk-for-first-time-since-burnham-became-pm-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:11:28","slug":"poll-shows-labour-ahead-of-reform-uk-for-first-time-since-burnham-became-pm-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/poll-shows-labour-ahead-of-reform-uk-for-first-time-since-burnham-became-pm-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows Labour ahead of Reform UK for first time since Burnham became PM \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNew PM says he \u2018wouldn\u2019t get carried away\u2019 by latest polling but says he is pleased if he has \u2018connected with people\u2019I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham\u2019s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am), making council tax fairer (see 10.03am), and ruling out an early election (see 11.56am). And yesterday Peter Walker wrote up the lines in the interview from Burnham saying he would disagree with Donald Trump if necessary.Here are some of the other comments worth flagging up.Burnham suggested care workers should be exempt from Shabana Mahmood\u2019s plan to make foreign workers wait much longer until they can apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Currently workers normally have to wait five years until they qualify for settlement. Under Mahmood\u2019s plans, the norm will become 10 years, and care workers could even have to wait 15 years (because working in a low-pay sector means they contribute less to the exchequer, the Home Office argues). Last week Kiran Stacey and Patrick Butler reported that Burnham may order a rethink. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Poll shows Labour ahead of Reform UK for first time since Burnham became PM \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New PM says he \u2018wouldn\u2019t get carried away\u2019 by latest polling but says he is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-IOu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":172352,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/axe-stamp-duty-how-andy-burnham-could-change-property-tax\/","url_meta":{"origin":172266,"position":0},"title":"Axe stamp duty? 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