Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s hopes of using his party’s annual convention to arrest a slide in opinion polls were upended after a scandal over illicit financing came roaring back.

Addressing a private meeting of Labour’s ministerial advisers this week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he’d moved on from believing in the “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” maxim popularized by Ronald Reagan.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham indicated tax rises will likely be needed to pay for a major new social care policy, launching a nine-month “national conversation” about an issue he vowed to resolve after failed government attempts going back three decades.