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As political post-mortems on Keir Starmer gather pace, new details are emerging about the network of behind-the-scenes figures who helped shape his rise — and whose internal dynamics may have ultimately contributed to his downfall.

Former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos received the harshest sentence ever handed down to a modern Spanish minister after being convicted of running a criminal network that pocketed millions from emergency Covid-19 contracts.

A pair of signed stilettos donated by Nicola Sturgeon to be auctioned at an SNP fundraising event were bought back by her former husband, Peter Murrell, it has emerged.

Sir Keir Starmer will meet the family of murdered student Henry Nowak, whose treatment by police has triggered a political row.

Newly released documents from the so-called Epstein files reveal a controversial conversation involving former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, in which he outlines radical ideas for reshaping Israel through mass immigration from Russia.