Burnham chairs cabinet meeting before first statement to MPs as prime minister – UK politics live

PM will tell Commons he wants to unlock ‘positivity’ after a summer of policy announcements and improved poll ratingsAndy Burnham has refused to rule out tax rises to fund higher public spending in the budget – although he has also played down the prospect of big changes.In an article for the Times, Darren Jones, who was chief secretary to the PM under Keir Starmer but who left government when Burnham took power, has warned that higher public spending on its own won’t make Britain richer. He says:Britain is poorer than we often think. We won’t get richer based on higher