she is “minded to intervene” in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros.

It most certainly is not.

She is correct to investigate this major threat to the UK’s public interest.

The job of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport goes further: to determine whether the merger is in the public interest. It most certainly is not.

We are encouraged by Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, who recently sent letters to Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, as well as a statement to parliament, indicating that she is “minded…

She has also highlighted the potential impact on streaming services, content homogenisation and children’s television.

I want to say a massive congratulations to the fifteen shortlisted towns and I wish them luck in the next round of the competition.

There are other options available as well.

The question will be how.

I think there will be two things that will be different under Andy Burnham. The first is that it will be faster and bolder, and he's willing to think very differently about how we deliver that change.

Andy Burnham’s Labour will “wear our hearts on our sleeve more”, the PM-in-waiting’s ally Lisa Nandy has said.