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Top stories in the latest issue:
LUKE’S FAMILIAR
Another lobbyist joins Andy Burnham’s government, as Luke Sullivan leaves Headland to be chief of staff to the chief whip and special adviser to the PM.
KARL NARKS
Karl Turner MP, exiled from Labour in March, said in June that Andy Burnham had told him he’d get “the whip back immediately”. He’s still waiting…
COINCIDENCE CORNER
Shortly after attending the Derby Festival courtesy of the Jockey Club, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP writes a pro-industry letter to the gambling regulator.
TREASURY ISLAND
The government department that insists the rest of Whitehall counts the pennies is more generous when it comes to exit packages for its own top bods.
ZACK POT
The Greens hauled in an extra £2m last year – but the money isn’t only going into winning extra seats in parliament. Lawyers are getting a fair chunk too…
SOAMES SWEET SOAMES
The home secretary has put Rupert Soames on the Home Office board, even though on his watch Serco botched the asylum accommodation system.
HOUSING NEWS
After pledging to eradicate rough sleeping, Andy Burnham must tackle the issue of refugees leaving Home Office accommodation without a route into housing.
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
Maximus, which runs the UK’s largest disability testing contract, says it isn’t making the money it expected because it’s being fined so much for poor work.
FULL OF CRAPITA
Crapita is still hoovering up more public cash despite its catastrophic mishandling of public sector pensions.
BURNHAM BY NAME?
Sunny Jim asks why Andy Burnham and his team have kept almost completely shtum on the climate despite five heatwaves, wildfires and scorched crops.
