All news on the topic: Keir Starmer

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Labour insiders say senior figures tried to broker deal between Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner
According to reports, allies of Wes Streeting are trying to recruit ousted Angela Rayner to support him in a leadership contest in exchange for a Cabinet position and reinstatement as Deputy Prime Minister.
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UK Prime-Minister Keir Starmer announces full sanctions against Russian military intelligence GRU
The United Kingdom announced on Thursday new sanctions targeting the Russian military intelligence agency, commonly known as GRU, "in its entirety."
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Keir Starmer ’completely losing the plot’: PM defends against claims Richard Hughes was forced out
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch told Prime Minister’s Questions that Richard Hughes, the former chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), was "forced out for telling the truth" after the chancellor had "twisted the facts" on the Budget black hole.
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Since 2018: Keir Starmer’s trip could be first UK leader visit to China since Theresa May
The proposed Chinese embassy could offer “security benefits”, No 10 said, amid speculation Sir Keir Starmer will travel to Beijing if the London diplomatic complex is approved.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin rejects US proposals for peace as Donald Trump’s top envoys brief White House on Moscow talks
The UK accused Vladimir Putin of "sabre rattling" after he said Russia was ready for war against Europe as he resisted Donald Trump’s peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.
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UK’s King Charles III welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for first state visit in 27 years
The Prince and Princess of Wales have extended a warm welcome to the German president and his wife as they landed at London Heathrow on the nation’s first state visit to the UK in 27 years.
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UK’s Angela Rayner set to challenge Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over watering down flagship employment rights bill
Angela Rayner is set to challenge Sir Keir Starmer over his decision to water down her flagship employment rights bill.
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Lammy urges Farage to apologise for racist behaviour at school
Deputy PM contrasts apologies from former classmates with the Reform UK leader’s response to claims against him.
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Rachel Reeves is accused of talking up the ’fiscal challenge’ before announcing £26 billion worth of tax rises
Treasury minister James Murray insists Rachel Reeves has been honest with the public after the Chancellor was accused of misleading the public.
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Starmer scrambles to cut welfare after backlash over ‘Benefits Street Budget
Keir Starmer has been forced into a panicked pledge to try to cut welfare after his "Benefits Street Budget" triggered a fierce backlash and left Rachel Reeves fighting to keep her job.
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PM backs reeves despite OBR clash over “non-existent” budget gap
The support for the PM seems to be directly conflicting with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which stated it informed the Chancellor as early as October 31 that there was no longer a deficit in the public finances.
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Starmer discloses niece and her wife were violently attacked amid soaring UK homophobic hate crimes
The prime minister has revealed that Sir Keir Starmer’s niece and her wife were beaten up for holding hands in public.
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Farmers defy police ban and drive tractors into Westminster to protest Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax plan
Police had banned tractors from Whitehall, but farmers angry about Rachel Reeves’s tax changes brought their budget day protest to Westminster anyway.
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Nigel Farage denies making racist or antisemitic slurs at Dulwich College despite ex-classmates alleging he said “Hitler was right”
Nigel Farage has stated he "never directly racially abused anybody" following allegations that he made racist and antisemitic remarks while he was a schoolboy at Dulwich College.
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PM declines 12 times to rule out tax rises ahead of next week’s budget
The prime minister has refused to rule out manifesto-breaking tax hikes in next week’s budget while speaking to Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby.
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Keir Starmer brands Nigel Farage ‘unfit to lead’ and demands inquiry after ex-Reform ally’s pro-Russia bribery conviction
Keir Starmer has said Nigel Farage is not ’fit to lead our country’ after an ex-close ally of the Reform UK leader was jailed for accepting pro-Russian bribes.
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Sir Keir Starmer has said that Ukraine "must determine its future under its sovereignty"
The Prime Minister stated that he, together with French and German leaders, had stressed to Mr. Zelensky their support for Ukraine and the "fundamental principle" that Kyiv should be in control of its own future.
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Starmer slams Farage as “spineless” after alleged racist comments made at a school
Keir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of being “spineless” when it comes to tackling racism in his party after the Guardian revealed allegations he made xenophobic and antisemitic comments while he was at school.
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Security services ‘very relaxed’ about China’s 20,000 sq m embassy plan
MI5 officers informed the House of Commons speaker in a private meeting that they are capable of handling the risks associated with a proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, paving the way for its approval.
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NHS faces major staffing crisis as up to 50,000 nurses consider leaving
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests.
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Reform councillor suspended after group chat includes call for “mass Islam genocide”
A Reform UK councillor has been suspended from Nigel Farage’s party over a WhatsApp group where a member allegedly called for a “mass Islam genocide”.
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Labour under pressure as Starmer won’t rule out breaking manifesto pledge on tax thresholds
Sir Keir Starmer did not rule out the possibility of freezing income tax thresholds, which would constitute a breach of a Labour manifesto promise.
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Angela Rayner failed to pay £40,000 in stamp duty as she prepares potential leadership bid
Angela Rayner, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, is reportedly preparing for a possible leadership challenge against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
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Donald Trump threatens to sue BBC for up to $5 billion over Panorama edit
Donald Trump has confirmed he will sue the BBC over a spliced Panorama edit for ‘anywhere between $1 billion to $5 billion’.
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Rachel Reeves sparks market chaos after latest U-turn on income tax plans
Rachel Reeves has lost control. For two weeks, she dropped heavy hints that she’d hike income tax in her upcoming Budget, softening up the public for a breach of Labour’s biggest manifesto promise.