2 hours ago Long term sick may need to find jobs in Liz Kendall's welfare shake up

Liz Kendall blamed the Conservatives for failing to control welfare spending.

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5 hours ago Keir Starmer's embattled legal chief's overly 'finickity' approach is blamed for 'freezing' decisions

Concerns have been raised over Lord Hermer's 'conflicts of interest' after refusing to disclose his earnings for representing the likes of Gerry Adams and Shamima Begum.

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2 hours ago Starmer is accused of 'fudging the fact' in 'claiming he attended state school' by former pupil

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of 'fudging the facts' about attending a state school by Sir Peter Lampl, founder of social mobility charity Sutton Trust, who also attended Reigate Grammar.

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5 hours ago Snap! Labour is accused of wasteful spending and hypocrisy after spending £500,000 on vanity photographers

Sir Keir Starmer has two photographers in Number 10 while Rachel Reeves has one. It comes after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner hired a photographer on a salary of £68,000 last year.

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11 hours ago Freed Brit hostage Emily Damari tells Keir Starmer she was held at UNRWA facilities and denied medical treatment despite having lost two fingers

Emily spent 15 nightmare months in Gaza after she was snatched from her home in southern Israel during Hamas' incursion in the country on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people.

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3 hours ago Starmer accused of ‘fudging the facts’ of his schooling by education expert

Sutton Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl made the claim as he criticised the Government’s plans to charge VAT on private school fees.

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11 hours ago Starmer told to be 'bold' and use EU security fears to secure better Brexit reset deal

Exclusive: Lord Ricketts said the prime minster has an opportunity to put Britain back at the ‘heart’ of major decisions in Europe when he meets EU leaders on Monday

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11 hours ago Release of activist jailed in Egypt will take time, Starmer tells mother

Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 124 days in protest at her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s imprisonment.

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10 hours ago Trump sets stage for world leaders at the White House: Netanyahu to visit first with Keir Starmer set for crunch talks next month

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will become the first world leader to visit the White House on Tuesday when he holds meetings with President Donald Trump.

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11 hours ago Prime Minister has confidence in Attorney General, Downing Street says

Questions have been raised in recent weeks about Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer KC’s previous work.

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12 hours ago Philp’s ‘patronising’ comment about Britons’ work ethic show Tories ‘out of touch’, TUC says – politics live

General secretary highlights ‘legacy of 14 years of falling living standards under the Tories’In an article for the Guardian, the Labour MP Clive Lewis said Rachel Reeves’ growth speech this week means the party has abandoned its pre-election green commitments.Here is an extract.A growing suspicion looms that our government lacks a coherent governing philosophy or ideological compass beyond the vague pursuit of “growth”. But if growth at any cost is the mantra, the costs will soon become painfully clear. Why pledge to be clean and green, only to undermine that commitment with a Heathrow expansion promise six months later? Burning the furniture to stay warm doesn’t signal confidence – it reeks of panic.Regardless of the motivation, Labour has crossed the Rubicon. Approving Heathrow expansion is an irreversible break with our pre-election pledges. In 2021, Reeves stood in front of the Labour party conference and declared that she would be the “first-ever green chancellor”. Now, Labour...

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14 hours ago Scotland knows Brexit is holding Britain back. Why won't Labour admit it? | John Swinney

Five years after we left the EU, people are still paying the price. We’re ready to work with Westminster to forge closer bonds with EuropeJohn Swinney is the first minister of ScotlandThe pantomime season may be over, but when it comes to the government’s much-repeated claim to be pursuing economic growth above all else, the cry of “It’s behind you” is sounding ever louder. This classic panto joke works when everyone in the audience can see something clearly but the character on stage pretends not to. So it is with Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and Rachel Reeves’s attempts to kickstart the economy. Reeves and Keir Starmer are ignoring what is blindingly obvious to everyone else: Brexit is a significant drag on Britain’s growth prospects. They know it’s true but refuse to acknowledge it and, more importantly, to do anything about it.There is, however, nothing comical about this situation. The hard Brexit negotiated by Johnson took the UK out of the EU, the single market and the customs...

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16 hours ago Tory bid to celebrate Brexit anniversary marred by spat between Badenoch and Patel over party’s migration record – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch issues rebuke to Priti Patel after former home secretary defends rise in migration since BrexitThe SNP are using the fifth anniversary of Brexit to restate their call for the UK to “at the very least” rejoin the customs union and the single market. This is from Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s Europe spokesperson.For 5 years, Westminster’s deliberate and damaging denial of Brexit has hit people in the pocket, hurt our businesses and harmed our relationship with our nearest neighbours. “It was political and economic madness 5 years ago – and its damage is deepening by the day. It was a decision Scotland never voted for, but we have been left paying the price. Sir Keir Starmer has spent an awful lot of time talking about a reset with our EU partners, but the reality is that the only reset which will work is to – at the very least - rejoin the EU single market and the customs union.The decision to exit the EU implemented five years ago has had a devastating impact on the Welsh ...

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17 hours ago Europhile minister breaks ranks to mock 'Brexit benefits' on fifth anniversary of leaving the bloc

Mary Creagh risked undermining Keir Starmer's delicate position on cutting ties with the EU with a withering assessment of the results.

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18 hours ago Keir Starmer quietly kept gifts of Taylor Swift merchandise after getting complimentary tickets to see pop star with his family... which he later U

Keir Starmer and his family went to a sold-out Wembley show in August, and talked to the Shake It Off singer and her mother for around 10 minutes afterwards.

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