Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff has admitted Labour did not do enough preparation before they were elected into government.

Morgan McSweeney, who was forced to quit over his links to disgraced peer and ex-ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson earlier this year, told the BBC his party was not ready to deliver quickly for voters after their landslide win in 2024.

His remarks come after Starmer announced he was stepping down as Labour leader and prime minister last Monday.

McSweeney told the Political Thinking podcast: “We didn’t prepare enough for what kind of world we were going to. We are now in a very different era than when Labour was last in government.

“I think we didn’t have enough conversations at the top of the party about what that meant, how to prepare for it, what that meant for the state.

“You have to deliver quite quickly for people, for them to see the change quickly. And I think we didn’t come in with enough of a theory about how we would do that.”

McSweeney said Labour should have been “way more optimistic” about the state of the country when it got into office in 2024.

The former aide ran Labour’s general election campaign. He was seen as a key element of Starmer’s rise to the top of the party and into No.10.

He added: “I take my own responsibilities for [not being prepared], rather than blaming one person.”

McSweeney sat as Starmer’s head of political strategy but after three months became his chief of staff once Sue Gray was kicked out of the role.

He added that he was still “processing” Starmer’s fall from grace and said Labour’s 14 years in opposition “went quickly”.

McSweeney also claimed that there was an expectation within the party that Labour would need at least two elections to return to power after its defeat in 2019 – which is why they were unprepared in 2024.

Labour MP for Makerfield Andy Burnham is expected to be crowned the next prime minister by July 20.

He is currently the only Labour MP who has announced his intention to run in the contest to replace Starmer.

But there has been some contestation from his team that Starmer’s departure timetable did not give Burnham long enough to come up with a sound plan for government.

They were allegedly hoping he would stay in post as a caretaker PM until September.

Starmer pushed Labour’s executive body to block Burnham from running to be the party’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election back in February.

After Labour was thrashed in the May elections, Josh Simons stood aside as Makerfield MP so Burnham – then Greater Manchester mayor – could run as a candidate.

Only MPs can contest a Labour leader.

But, Starmer clearly saw the writing on the wall after after Burnham’s comfortable victory in Makerfield and announced he was stepping down days later.

Despite Burnham’s rivalry with Starmer, McSweeney said he feels “optimistic” about the new era for the party.

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Though Ryanair has recently launched a range of new routes and bases, including Trapani, Rabat, and Tirana, they’ve cut some flights too.

That includes reduced capacity at Athens, Chania, and Heraklion Greek airports, as well as cutting their Thessaloniki base altogether.

The Mirror reported that the airline has “slashed” flights in multiple EU and UK airports ahead of their 2026 summer schedule, too.

That includes locations like Malaga, Birmingham, and Dublin.

Per the Mirror, these include:

• London Stansted
• Manchester

• Berlin Brandenburg
• Cologne Bonn
• Hamburg

Passengers flying to or from these destinations are advised to check their bookings before flying to ensure they’re still going ahead.

The Mirror claimed these are part of an attempt to streamline profits as jet fuel prices soar.

Rising costs have led to cancellations and suspensions for airlines like:

• KLM

• Air Canada

• Asiana Airlines

• Delta Airlines

• Lufthansa

• SAS.

However, it’s worth noting that Ryanair is expanding its services in multiple locations and has mentioned in the past that the company isn’t especially worried about jet fuel shortages.

Some of the reasons they’ve given for cutting or reducing flights to airports include “uncompetitive costs” in Greece and the Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax in the UK.

“While Ryanair is growing modestly in London, many UK regional airports are being hammered by Rachel Reeves’ stupid decision to increase APD from today. This APD hike makes UK air travel even less competitive versus countries like Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia and regional Italy, where Govts are abolishing enviro taxes and being rewarded with rapid traffic, tourism and jobs growth,” Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said.

The CEO previously said Ryanair would move the three aircraft from its recently-ditched Thessaloniki base to those in Albania, regional Italy and Sweden.

Exercise is linked to a longer life. Strength training, for instance, is associated with up to four years greater lifespan, while one paper found that a combination of weight lifting and aerobic exercise resulted in the best longevity gains.

Speaking to HuffPost UK, Dr Harpal Bains, a longevity doctor and medical director at Harpal Clinic, seemed to agree with those findings.

“Exercise is one of the most powerful investments women can make in their future health,” she said.

“The key is consistency: moving regularly, avoiding long periods of inactivity and making sure exercise supports the four pillars of healthy ageing: cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility and stability.”

She suggested that, for longevity, women shouldn’t rely on cardio alone.

“Strength training is one of the most important things women can do because muscle supports metabolism, bone density, insulin sensitivity and long-term independence,” added the expert.

We asked Dr Bains to share the best exercise for women to do, by age.

Now is the time to build a strong foundation of muscle, the doctor told us.

She advised: “Build your reserve. Prioritise strength training, brisk cardio, running, cycling, swimming, Pilates or yoga and balance-based movements. This is when you build muscle and bone density that protects you later.”

One study found that people whose cardiovascular health dipped between their 20s and 40s were 10 times as likely to experience heart health issues in their 60s.

“This is where exercise becomes non-negotiable,” Dr Bains advised. “Strength training is key as oestrogen shifts can accelerate muscle and bone loss. Add brisk walking, intervals, cycling or swimming for heart and metabolic health, plus mobility and balance work to maintain joint range and coordination.”

Some experts think that downhill walking could improve menopausal women’s bones, which are more likely than usual to deteriorate during this life stage.

Strength training during the menopause, meanwhile, has been linked to better bone density and improved hormonal and metabolic levels.

“Focus on independence,” advised the doctor. “Walking, swimming, cycling, light weights, resistance bands, Tai Chi, yoga and balance drills are excellent.

“The goal is to preserve muscle, balance and confidence, which lowers frailty and fall risk.”

Balance training – including Tai Chi, walking backwards, dancing, and single-leg training – has been described as a “neglected” way to help your balance and mobility as you age.

The Government has issued a warning on oak processionary moth caterpillars “ahead of peak season”.

They have said it’s important for the public to “stay vigilant” as the “pest” begins to make its hairy way onto oak trees.

Not only can they harm the iconic trees, which The Tree Council has described as being “under threat” in the UK, but they can also cause irritation “and should not be touched under any circumstances”, the Government said.

They’re the caterpillar, or the younger stage, of the oak processionary moth.

The Forestry Commission’s Oak Processionary Moth Programme Manager, Dr Edward Straw, said we might see more of these than usual as “The warm weather in spring has led to oak processionary moth growing quicker than in previous years and we may see higher infestation levels”.

They’re about 2-3cm-long caterpillars with a grey body and a dark head with lengthy, white hairs. They usually form a nose-to-tail formation in groups as they travel down oak trees.

They have nests which the Government has said are usually teardrop-shaped or dome-shaped and can range from the size of a 50p coin to that of a melon. These look white at first, but can turn brown later on.

Forest Research said that while the invasive oak processionary caterpillar looks like harmless native species – including the lackey moth and brown tail moth caterpillars – there are ways to distinguish the “pest” from the rest.

They said, ”(The) oak processionary moth feeds only on oak and produces large nests on oak trunks and large branches from May onwards. Hairy caterpillars which are not on oak or are not associated with a silk nest are almost certainly not (oak processionary moths)”.

They’re usually found in the South-East of the UK.

Professor Nicola Spence, Defra Chief Plant Health Officer, said: “I would advise that members of the public living in the South East, Derbyshire and Dorset, avoid any contact with the caterpillar and its nests, as this can cause irritation”.

Firstly, they feed on the leaves of oak trees, which means they can hamper the trees’ growth. This can leave them more vulnerable to disease.

Secondly, the tiny hairs on the caterpillars’ bodies can “cause itchy rashes, eye and throat irritation and should not be touched under any circumstances,” said the Government.

Firstly, don’t touch them. Don’t even touch the nest, the government warned, as this could contain the irritating hairs.

Secondly, report any sightings so experts can keep track of the caterpillars.

“If you spot the pest, report the sighting via our TreeAlert portal. Alternatively, you can email opm@forestrycommission.gov.uk,” Dr Straw said.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) also said that “Due to the irritant hairs, control of this insect should only be carried out by professional contractors”.

The government previously said, “if you or someone in your care has a serious allergic reaction, get medical help. For less severe reactions, a pharmacist can provide advice on relief from skin or eye irritations.”

They also say that “if an animal in your care is seriously affected, get advice from a vet”, and warn to “Tell the medical person or vet you suspect it is due to OPM [oak processionary moth] contact.“

Did you know that Tesco had an own-brand product before the supermarket had even been named?

Yup ― Tesco was given its moniker long after it first went to Tesco Tea.

The TES came from supplier TE Stockwell’s name, and the Co came from founder Jack Cohen’s surname.

I had a vague idea Tesco, Lidl, and Aldi were all clever portmanteaus or acronyms.

But for some reason, I had no idea the letters in ASDA contained little Easter eggs about the company’s past too ― until today.

According to the company’s site, the Asquith family whose sons created ASDA were originally butchers. Peter and Fred Asquith went on to open some supermarket stores.

Meanwhile (in the 1920s) a group of dairy farmers united to form Hindell’s Dairy Farmers Ltd ― this included the Stockdale family.

By 1949 Arthur Stockdale turned that dairy collective into a single company called Associated Dairies & Farm Stores Ltd.

Noel Stockdale, Arthur’s son, met with the Asquith brothers and liked their work. So, in 1965, they officially joined together to form ASDA.

Per ASDA’s site, the name therefore stands for “ASquith + DAiries.”

The more I think about it, the wilder it seems that I never questioned the brand name…

Most of the company (67.5%) now belongs to private equity giant TDR Capital, City AM reports.

Mohsin Issa has 22.5%, while Walmart still has a 10% stake.

The American superstore had previously owned ASDA, the publication explains.

And according to Reader’s Digest, Walmart’s name has its own history ― it “was likely an abbreviation for Walton’s Market”.

Do you sometimes feel like your feelings need to stay on the back burner while you attend to everyone else’s, or find yourself saying “Don’t worry about me!” far too often?

This, BACP member therapist Joanne Strong said, could be a sign of “emotional over-functioning”.

Emotional over-functioning is “is where one person takes on responsibility for
another person’s feelings, emotional processing and regulation,” she explained.

“This is usually a habit rooted in childhood and isn’t usually a conscious decision, more a way of being that the individual has learnt to inhabit.”

Here, HuffPost UK asked Strong how to spot the signs of emotional over-functioning, as well as how it can affect your relationship and what to do if you notice it.

“If one person is emotionally over-functioning in a relationship, they will be attempting to process the feelings of the other person, or to keep the other person emotionally regulated,” the therapist said.

That can take a lot of different forms, she added.

But some common manifestations may include:

1. Minimising, and feeling somewhat out of touch with, your own feelings,
2. Feeling that the experiences, emotions, and needs of the ‘recipient’ of the emotional over-functioning take up more space or ‘air time’,
3. Avoiding, redirecting, and/or shutting down some emotions, like anger,
4. Resentment on both sides “and a reduction in intimacy, as the dynamic can interfere with the natural flow of feelings and communication between partners,”
5. An emerging parent-child dynamic as responsibilities feel unequally shared.

Strong said the dynamic often creates distance and resentment between couples.

“For the person who is emotionally over-functioning, they might start to feel they are ‘doing all of the work’, that their feelings ‘don’t matter.’”

Loneliness may creep in for this person, who could be left to feel that they’re dealing with their emotions alone.

“For the recipient, there is often frustration, a feeling of being unheard, as their feelings are expressed or soothed by their partner without them getting the chance to explore and express what is going on in their internal world themselves,” she added.

“The parent-child dynamic inherent in this pattern can lead to a power imbalance which will often show up in other ways.”

Strong pointed out that many people who emotionally over-function learned the bahaviour as a child, when they may have felt the pressure to regulate others’ emotions to help control their environment.

“It is a pattern of looking after what is ‘on the outside’, so that what is
‘on the inside’ can feel some safety and security. What gets left out is the internal world of the child, and this persists into adulthood,” she said.

To address this, the therapist added, we need to turn our attention inwards – “To tend to, explore, express and regulate the feelings that belong to self rather than other.

“Anything that fosters internal awareness and connection can help: meditation, journaling, creativity, yoga, self-expression. Therapy can be incredibly helpful because the focus is on cultivating this self-contact and care,” she ended.

There are two ways to lie about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, and JD Vance has mastered both of them.

The first: muddy the waters, refuse to acknowledge reality and dismiss facts as inaccurate.

The second: dehumanize people targeted by the US government, and describe them as inherently criminal and un-American to justify a policy of mass detention and deportation.

Now on his third week of promotion for “Communion,” his memoir about converting to Catholicism, Vance is using his faith to sanitize the worst aspects of Trump’s second term — and possibly previewing how he’ll campaign on immigration during a likely presidential run of his own.

Trump’s agenda relies on cruelty. The administration set a new record for people in immigration detention earlier this year, though the vast majority of detained people have no criminal convictions at all. Only a tiny percentage of immigration detainees have convictions for violent crimes. Many people in detention don’t even have a final deportation order, but rather are in the middle of applying for asylum. The administration has asserted the authority to jail millions of people indefinitely, and recently asked the Supreme Court to bless that unprecedented “mandatory detention” policy. Trump officials have admitted to using the misery of detention to pressure people to give up their legal cases and “self-deport.”

Vance can’t run from that record. Instead, he’s doing what he’s done for years — talking his way beyond the pale.

“Communion” lays out the debate over immigration policy in the most general terms possible — presumably because anything else would be damning for Vance.

“Law enforcement is an inherently difficult business,” Vance writes. “If you arrest a person illegally in the United States, that person will sometimes resist arrest. Even if they don’t, and even if everyone agrees their deportation is lawful and moral, there will still be some measure of separation and heartache.”

These lines are all about the art of the straw man: The issue at hand isn’t the “heartache” of a lawful, moral deportation — it is the question of whether the vast majority of this administration’s immigration arrests and deportations are lawful or moral in the first place.

And despite the book being about why he aligned with Catholicism as an adult, Vance is evasive about the fact that two popes in a row have criticized Trump’s immigration agenda at length. He doesn’t engage on the substance of the policies that have been criticized and instead somewhat ironically wishes for “an institutional faith less focused on platitudes and more focused on reality.”

The comment about how “inherently difficult” law enforcement is, for example, comes just after Vance describes how, in late 2025, the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops approved a “special pastoral message on immigration” that critiqued the administration. Vance writes that the document was “almost too measured,” then moves on without actually addressing the letter’s contents.

But the conference’s statement was detailed, expressing concern about mass deportation, racial profiling, “the vilification of immigrants,” horrific conditions inside detention centers, “the lack of access to pastoral care” in the facilities, the fact that “some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status,” and the administration’s efforts to arrest immigrants in sensitive zones including churches. Vance did not address any of the specifics.

Vance has now taken the sleight-of-hand strategy on tour. Rather than defending the worst parts of Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda when faced with legitimate criticisms, he creates a new reality: disputing straightforward facts and cherry-picking hypotheticals.

On “The View” a couple of weeks ago, Vance faced questions about in-custody Immigration and Customs Enforcement deaths, children being held in “sub-human” detention centers, and the administration’s racist language.

“Law enforcement is always inherently not a very pretty process,” he deflected, especially with “violent people” and those who are “resisting arrest.”

He went on to essentially accuse Joe Biden’s administration of running, or at least tolerating, a child trafficking ring, saying there were “tens of thousands of children that were sex-trafficked by the cartels” in the last administration — a number that no one else in the Trump administration has used and for which HuffPost found no evidence. (The administration has repeatedly made broad-brush false claims about the prevalence of child sex trafficking, all while it arrests parents, threatens youth with “prolonged detention,” and targets migrant kids’ legal service providers.)

“You think that our immigration policies are inhumane based on the reporting of one person with a political bias,” Vance said, not indicating which “one person” he was calling out, despite there being millions of words written about the specifics of the administration’s policies. “What I’m telling you is that it’s inhumane to allow cartels to sex-traffic people across our borders.”

Later, Vance dismissed an accurate criticism about the administration’s agenda. “Since October of last year, there’s been something like 6,668 refugees let into the country. All but three were white South Africans,” co-host Ana Navarro said.

Vance suggested the statistic was wrong, though it’s actually a well-known, damning testament to the white supremacist attitudes that pervade the Trump administration.

“I’m very skeptical of that number because we have a lot of different immigration pathways in the United States of America,” he said.

In his book, Vance writes that it’s possible to support “strict migration policy without dehumanizing anyone” — but his career in the Trump administration is predicated on dehumanizing immigrants.

There’s no clearer example of the impact of that strategy than what Vance did to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

In 2024, Vance was the first major elected official to push the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating pets in the area. Local officials told Vance’s staff the claims weren’t true, and no evidence ever supported them.

Vance was unapologetic. “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” he said at the time. Vance acknowledged that the rumors he was spreading could be lies, and he kept spreading them anyway, saying he was merely amplifying (unverified and politically convenient) reports his office received. He also falsely claimed that, as a result of Haitian migrants, communicable diseases like tuberculosis and HIV had “skyrocketed” in Springfield.

Within days, Trump had pledged to revoke temporary protected status — or TPS, a deportation protection for people whose birth countries are in severe turmoil — for Haitians, saying Springfield had been “overrun.”

The Supreme Court just signed off on that move, meaning that, with the help of Vance’s propaganda, Trump has a list of more than 300,000 people who are now newly deportable and at risk of being sent to their extremely dangerous home country. As the historian Timothy Snyder observed Monday, “If there is a Springfield pogrom, JD Vance will have his first namesake policy.”

Just this week, Vance warned against allowing “low-wage third-world immigrants” and said European countries risked “committing civilizational suicide” through immigration.

He dresses up his casual racism in his book, referring to “the social instability inherent in assimilating one population into another.”

“Too much immigration,” he writes, “actually destroys the social cohesion necessary to form labor unions.”

That’s pretty rich coming from Vance, who as a U.S. senator opposed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act — the U.S. labor movement’s top legislative priority — because, as he told Politico in 2024, “I think it’s dumb to hand over a lot of power to a union leadership that is aggressively anti-Republican.”

Vance also takes pains to suggest that immigrants make America less Christian — even though the facts are more complicated.

“Churchgoing kept declining just as Biden-era immigration policy caused a skyrocketing increase in the foreign-born share of the population,” he writes. “That makes assimilating newcomers even harder.”

Toward the end of the book, in a discussion of racism, Vance again suggests that migration is associated with decreasing religiosity.

“From the intermarriage of the Spanish and native populations in Mexico to the American melting pot of the nineteenth century to the Civil Rights Movement, Christianity has long brought people together,” he writes. “And yet, as our leaders have ushered in an unprecedented increase in demographic diversity through immigration, they have simultaneously discarded the most powerful force for cultural cohesion: Christianity. It is hardly any surprise that the fruits of their labor are rising racial conflict and gender division. Secularism has produced social strife despite its promises of enlightenment.”

The data tell a different story.

Pew Research Center’s 2025 Religious Landscape Study shows that immigrants to the United States said the Bible is extremely or very important to them at rates higher than people born in the United States to U.S.-born parents. The same group also attended religious services more frequently and were more likely to say religion was very or somewhat important to them. While, overall, the study found that immigrants were a few percentage points less Christian than people born in the United States, a separate 2024 Pew report using different data found that 70% of migrants to the United States were Christian, compared with 64% of the U.S. population that was Christian as of 2020.

It’s true that religiosity in America has trended downward in recent years, but that’s regardless of immigration status. It’s also true that most undocumented migrants are from the Americas, and that Trump administration policies — including turning away asylum-seekers at the southern border and ending certain deportation protections — disproportionately affect migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, which are far more Christian than the United States.

“Catholic immigrants are being differentially impacted by these policies,” Stephanie Kramer, a senior researcher on religion and public life at Pew, told HuffPost.

If Vance has any regrets about backing up Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade, he hasn’t said so. In his book, he walks back a snide remark about “childless cat ladies,” calling it “boneheaded.”

As far as the Haitian community he slandered as disease-spreading pet-eaters — or anyone else he’s allowed Trump to set his sights on — Vance lets the administration’s actions do the talking.

President Donald Trump is playing the blame game yet again for the ongoing issues with his exorbitant renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — this time for its algae outbreak.

“They put in algae! Who the hell put in algae?” Trump asked while delivering remarks in Medora, North Dakota, on Wednesday.

The president went on to accuse former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden of not fixing the pool despite spending millions of dollars “trying” to do so.

Trump, who potentially has spent more than $1 billion on a slew of Washington, DC renovations, alleged he only spent “a very small amount of money” on the Reflecting Pool in comparison.

“What they don’t say is Barack Hussein Obama ― Have you heard of him? ― Barack Hussein Obama spent tens of millions of dollars trying to fix it, and it was a disaster,” he continued. “Sleepy Joe Biden spent millions of dollars trying to fix it, and he was unable to do it.”

“But we did it, and it works beautifully,” he added.

“We got rid of the algae, which they put in,” Trump claimed. “They had a couple of people with signs [that said] ‘Protect the algae.’ Can you believe this? This world has gone crazy.”

Trump was referring to the protesters who have celebrated the algae that has bloomed in the Reflecting Pool following the president’s ongoing controversial renovations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the same protesters late last month, calling them “deranged leftist[s].”

It is unclear if Trump was accusing the protesters or Obama and Biden of adding the algae.

Trump first announced his plans to spruce up Washington in April ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, claiming the Reflecting Pool revamp would only cost $1.5 million. The pool renovations have since exceeded $16 million.

Obama oversaw a multimillion-dollar renovation of the pool, but the final bill didn’t come anywhere close to Trump’s renovations price tag. FactCheck.Org also debunked Trump’s claims that the Biden administration conducted major work on the pool.

Biden called Trump a “loser” last week over Reflecting Pool drama.

Elsewhere in his remarks Wednesday, Trump also repeated unproven and likely false claims that the pool was vandalized with a knife.

Watch Trump’s remarks below. Skip to the 49:37 mark to hear his comments about the Reflecting Pool.

Andy Burnham has vowed not to make “crude cuts” to Britain’s welfare bill when he becomes prime minister later this month.

The former mayor of Greater Manchester said he would take a “different approach” to help get young people not in employment, education or training (NEETS) into work.

Keir Starmer was thwarted by a Labour backbench rebellion when he tried to cut the benefits bill by £5 billion a year ago.

But speaking to LBC, Burnham – who is on course to take over from Starmer on July 20 – said: “I’m not going to go with the crude cuts to benefit levels that then just put people who are struggling in even worse poverty, and that often creates the backlash, and understandably so.

“There’s a different approach, which is looking at two things that can be done differently to get the overall benefits bill down.

“One of those is how we support young people. I will not defend an education system that is overly focused on the university route and does not lay out paths to technical qualifications for our young people.”

He added: “What I’ve done in Greater Manchester is something that might be looked at more broadly, free bus travel for 16 to 18-year-olds, so that they can access those opportunities.

“In my view, if we did that, and we changed the way we provide mental health support to young people – I believe we can substantially reduce the number of NEETS.

“If you build more council homes, you can bring down the housing benefit bill. You do it over a longer term, in a more sustainable way.”

Burnham also hinted at increasing business rates on firms like Amazon, which build huge warehouses outside towns and cities, and using that money to help struggling high streets.

He said he stuck by Labour’s election manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, VAT or national insurance.

But he said “there is some room within that manifesto for movement on tax”.

“So, if you take business rates, for instance, I believe there is a case for higher business rates on warehouses and the major developments we see on the outskirts of our cities so that we can cut business rates for pubs,” he said.

“And I proposed a 20% cut and lift some high street businesses out of business rates altogether.”

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride said: “Instead of raising taxes Labour should be getting a grip of spending, but Andy Burnham won’t touch the ballooning benefits bill. He will double down on all the mistakes Labour have already made.”

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