Andy Burnham to set out devolution plan amid criticism it won’t benefit regions equally – UK politics live

Plan set to transform funding so English regions no longer rely on Whitehall handouts for projects

In other news, Labour's former deputy leader Harriet Harman has suggested that men should be banned from running to become the next Labour leader.

We've got to have a woman next time," the Labour peer told the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.

Governments of all political stripes have made genuine efforts to tackle domestic abuse. Too often, I have seen those attempts fall short because responsibility and accountability is scattered across Whitehall.

It is one of the many reasons why progress on halving violence against women and girls has been slow - the machinery of government is simply not set up to tackle problems that cut across every part of the state.