We are reminded rather starkly today of the backdrop – the all too hard to shift backdrop – that shapes our national life and conversation and the trade-offs the government confronts. The latest GDP figures underline the baked in sluggishness, the flatlining, even the shrivelling of the economy. All this after the prime minister and...
Michael Race, Simon Jack & Alice Cunningham BBC Business & BBC Suffolk BBC The prime minister has said he is “not writing a blank cheque” to pay for a new UK nuclear power plant, after the government announced it would commit £14.2bn to the project. Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC the development of Sizewell...
Three men charged in connection with arson attacks on two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer will face trial in April of next year, a court has heard. Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 26 appeared together via video link from the high security Belmarsh prison in south-east London. Petro Pochynok, 34,...
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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of indulging in “fantasy economics” over their approaches to welfare policies. Writing in the Daily Mail, Badenoch says both leaders believe in getting struggling taxpayers to “fund unlimited child support for others”. Her commentary comes after the...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of “fantasy” economics after the Reform UK leader set out a number of policies earlier this week. In a speech later this morning, Sir Keir is expected to liken Farage to former PM Liz Truss and say that Reform’s policies would lead to an increase in...
The Kremlin has rejected claims of potential Russian involvement in alleged arson attacks at properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, calling them “ludicrous”. It comes after media reports that UK security officials are investigating a potential link following three incidents earlier this month. In response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday: “London...
It was back in October that word first broke of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s intention to turn over the Chagos Island chain to the country of Mauritius. This impacts United States security directly, as our great ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, sits in the middle of the Chagos Islands....
Jamie McConkey & Yang Tian BBC News Getty Images Israel’s PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on “the wrong side of history” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders have “effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power”. He also accused...
As Britons have expressed their growing anger about the de-Britainization of once-Great Britain, the Establishment has mobilized the oppressive powers of the state to shut them up. Until about 10 seconds ago, you could get a visit from the police for saying that migrants should be forced to learn English or that mass migration has...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will travel to Ukraine on Saturday alongside fellow world leaders to put pressure on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the war. Sir Keir is being joined on the visit by President Emmanuel Macron of France, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Friedrich Merz, who is making...
The prime minister is set to impose a new wave of sanctions on Russian oil tankers, which are being used to avoid existing sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. Number 10 has said action will be taken against up to 100 vessels which have carried more than £18 billion worth of cargo since the...
It is turning out to be quite the month for trade deals of various complexions. There was the one with India earlier this week, now the pact with the US, and a new deal with the European Union is expected the week after next at a UK-EU summit in London. All sorts of arrangements, varying...
Joshua Nevett Political reporter House of Commons Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing a growing rebellion by Labour MPs over planned welfare cuts some have warned are “impossible to support” without a “change of direction”. In a letter to The Guardian, 42 MPs said proposed welfare savings worth £5bn a year by 2030 had...
Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent EPA The UK has been desperate for a deal of this sort with the US since President Donald Trump unleashed his wave of global tariffs. So have other countries. But it seems the UK has got there first – a significant achievement by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his...