Sir Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms strike “the right balance” after making concessions to his own backbench MPs. The government’s initial plans, aimed at bringing down the welfare bill, would have made it harder for people to claim personal independence payment (Pip), a benefit paid to 3.7 million people with long-term physical or...
Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he regrets saying the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers” in a speech about immigration. The prime minister was accused by some critics of using divisive language when he made a speech to announce plans to cut immigration in May. Some MPs...
BBC Both The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail run with “Starmer caves in” as the headline on their lead stories – reporting on the prime minister’s climbdown in the face of a major rebellion over welfare cuts. The Telegraph also reports that the UK is “in talks” with France to return migrants coming across...
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On Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer insisted that he would plough on with the government’s proposed welfare reforms. For Labour MPs, that only made things worse. Today’s task for the prime minister and his team: make things better. The clear change of tone right from the start of the day was the first sign of that...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “in denial” about the scale of Labour MPs’ welfare rebellion writes the Guardian. Some cabinet ministers “are now said to believe the welfare reform bill has no chance of passing in its current form”, it adds. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte grins at US President Donald Trump in a...
Iain Watson, Henry Zeffman and Harry Farley Political correspondents Reuters Angela Rayner has declared that the government will go ahead with its controversial legislation, aimed at reforming the welfare system, next week. But a well-placed source told us it could still be pulled: “It’s a live discussion.” Conversations are continuing at the heart of government...
Joe Pike Political Correspondent PA Media Sir Keir Starmer seemed confident Donald Trump would not intervene, after sitting next to him at a G7 dinner in Canada Sir Keir Starmer has been treading a delicate diplomatic tightrope all week on the issue of Iran. Last night’s airstrikes by the US mean the challenges facing the...
PA Media Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has called on Iran to “return to the negotiating table” after the US became involved in the Israeli operation against the country on Saturday night. Sir Keir said “stability in the region is a priority” and described Iran’s nuclear programme as “a grave threat to international security”. “Iran...
Getty Images Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he does not think Kneecap’s planned Glastonbury Festival performance is “appropriate”. He made the comments after Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh appeared in court charged with a terror offence, relating to allegedly displaying a flag in support of proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig...
On Tuesday, Boulter provided BBC Sport unprecedented insight into the volume and nature of abuse received by players, including sharing screenshots of her private inbox. “I think it just kind of shows how vulnerable we are,” the 28-year-old said. “You really don’t know if this person is on site. You really don’t know if they’re...
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he rushed to pick up papers dropped by US President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit partly because he feared what the White House security team might do if anyone else tried to help. Starmer and Trump were talking to reporters about their newly signed off UK-US...
This had all the hallmarks of Trumpian political theatrics. In the Canadian sunshine here in the Rockies at the G7 summit, President Trump emerged from a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer brandishing a folder. Within it was the deal US and UK officials have been putting together to flesh out a tariffs agreement struck last...
The UK is expected to unveil new sanctions against Russia designed to “restrict Putin’s war machine” alongside other Ukraine allies on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the measures would increase economic pressure on the Kremlin to show Vladimir Putin “it is in his and Russia’s interests to demonstrate he is serious about peace”....
The prime minister has announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse. Baroness Casey has recommended a national inquiry is...