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Keir Starmer

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK Budget
    Starmer insists Budget will not contain measures that stifle growth

    City fears grow that PM will plug fiscal hole with tax rise on business

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK economy
    UK urged to tax ‘unhealthy’ food companies to boost national health

    Reduced illness could save NHS £18bn per year by mid-2030s, says think-tank

    A burger and chips
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Watchdog rejects calls to probe Starmer’s failure to declare free clothing

    Prime minister initially failed to disclose more than £5,000 in items and tailoring for his wife

    Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

    Keir Starmer with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a meeting at Blenheim Palace in July
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Labour denies ‘transparency’ issue after clothing donation to Starmer’s wife

    Prime minister broke parliamentary rules by failing initially to declare gift from Waheed Alli

    Keir Starmer and wife Victoria
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer has convinced people of the dire challenge but he must respond with action

    Labour hopes to exceed people’s rock-bottom expectations, but recent poll suggests it must do more to win confidence

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Food diet
    Starmer to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm in public health drive

    PM says he is prepared to be bold in tackling public health through prevention, even in the face of opposition

    A hand taking potato chips from inside a bag
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    National Health Service
    NHS to receive ‘no more money without reform’, says Starmer

    Prime minister warns health service will take a decade to repair after damning report

    Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting stand in open shirts holding drinks
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    National Health Service
    England’s NHS in ‘critical condition’, official review finds

    Austerity and failed attempts at reform have contributed to decline of health provision, says Darzi report

    NHS ambulance staff outside a hospital in London,
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Labour needs Reeves to be an imperial chancellor

    She already has a political empire, but she must command it — and neutralise damage from the government’s early mistakes

    Illustration of Rachel Reeves holding a paint brush in front of a painting of Big Ben which is being painted over a portrait of Margaret Thatcher (her hair is just visibile above Big Ben). Kier Starmer stands on the other side of the canvas gesturing towards it
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer’s win on winter fuel cut may prove temporary reprieve

    Prime minister managed to limit Labour MP revolt over trimming winter fuel allowance but hurdles lie ahead

    Montage shows prime minister Sir Keir Starmer with a Labour red backdrop and silhouette of parliament
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK welfare reform
    Starmer suffers rebellion as MPs vote to cut pensioner benefit

    About a dozen Labour MPs are believed to have abstained in protest

    An elderly person with their hands on a radiator
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer taps New Labour figures in hiring spree

    UK prime minister approves return of several former officials and ministers who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Keir Starmer pledges to end attacks on trade union movement

    PM will herald Labour’s repeal of anti-strike laws at the TUC as he insists his party can also work with business

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Reeves seeks to minimise Labour rebellion over plan to curb UK pensioner benefits

    Chancellor urges party unity as she sticks by policy to means test winter fuel payments

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves waves while leaving Downing Street
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Starmer says his government must be ‘prepared to be unpopular’

    UK prime minister defends decision to scrap winter fuel payments for 10mn pensioners to shore up public finances

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer to visit White House next week

    UK prime minister to hold second meeting with Joe Biden at time two allies’ approach to Israel at variance

    Keir Starmer during a visit to the National Crime Agency
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Labour pressured MP to withdraw motion on winter fuel payments

    Neil Duncan-Jordan’s petition called for a delay to ending support for pensioners

    Freshman MP and former pension campaigner Neil Duncan-Jordan
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    House of Lords
    Senior Tory lord hits out at bill to abolish hereditary peers in UK

    Lord Tom Strathclyde calls legislation a ‘blunt instrument’ as Labour figures brace for opposition from the upper chamber

    Members of the House of Lords take their seats ahead of the King’s Speech during the State Opening of Parliament
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer faces growing unrest over axing winter fuel payments

    Labour MPs and some peers criticise move ahead of Tuesday vote

    Elderly lady with electric heater
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Brexit
    Renegotiating the UK’s Brexit deal will take more than warm words Premium content

    Plus, Starmer needs to ease up on the gloom

    Musicians protest in Westminster
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    ExplainerGrenfell Tower disaster
    ‘Incompetence, dishonesty and greed’: Key findings of Grenfell report

    Fire inquiry points blame at cladding companies and past government ministers

    Grenfell Tower
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s test is whether UK will make genuine progress after Budget pain

    PM hopes his bold decision-making as Labour leader will translate into a revival of public services in office

    Keir Starmer in a hard hat
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Brexit
    EU rules out loosening post-Brexit curbs on UK touring musicians

    Internal briefing documents deal early blow to pledges made by Sir Keir Starmer

    Anti-Brexit musicians play instruments as they demonstrate outside of the Houses of Parliament
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