Burnham says Brexit brought ‘decade of low growth’ in first Commons address as prime minister – as it happened

Economy The Guardian By Andrew Sparrow 01 Sep 2026 17:52 1 min read
Burnham says Brexit brought ‘decade of low growth’ in first Commons address as prime minister – as it happened

This liveblog is now closed. Read the Guardian’s report of today’s political news here My colleague Richard Partington, the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, grew up, like Andy Burnham, in the Warrington suburb of Culcheth. He has been home to find out what people there are saying about the new PM. Yesterday, Kemi Badenoch announced a reshuffle, replacing Mel Stride with Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor and Priti Patel with Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary. Continue readin

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