2 hours ago Keir Starmer vows to concentrate on domestic matters following backlash over constant globe trotting

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to focus on domestic policies after facing internal criticism over his 15 foreign trips since assuming power in July.

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3 hours ago SIR KEIR STARMER: Jobs are about dignity and pride... not just paying the bills

SIR KEIR STARMER: Next week, my government will set out radical reforms to get Britain working, paving the way for the biggest overhaul of employment support in memory.

Economics

5 hours ago Justice Secretary says assisted dying ‘slippery slope to death on demand’

Shabana Mahmood said she was ‘profoundly concerned’ by the Bill.

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8 hours ago The Observer view: ICC’s Israel arrest warrants are a test the world must not fail

International criminal court’s intervention must be supported if global rules-based order is to have a meaningful futureThe decision by the international criminal court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former defence minister, for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza has huge implications for Israel and Palestine, for international justice and the rules-based global order that the UK and its allies are pledged to uphold. This unprecedented, necessary and impartial supranational attempt to prosecute democratically elected western politicians accused of grievous wrongdoing is a test the international community dare not fail.Netanyahu’s reaction to the charges was to dismiss them as “absurd” and “antisemitic” and the...

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9 hours ago Trump ally warns Keir Starmer US will 'crush' UK economy if Britain helps arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Prime Minister Keir Starmer that those who follow the ICC's ruling could expect sharp economic consequences

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10 hours ago Keir Starmer played the China card in Rio – and sent a message to a hawkish Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall

The PM and other western leaders are cosying up to Beijing. If the president-elect imposes punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, he will give Xi the upper handBoth were lawyers before they became politicians, but that’s where the similarities between Keir Starmer and Richard Nixon end. The former US president resigned in disgrace at the height of the Watergate corruption scandal exactly 50 years ago. Britain’s prime minister may have been unwise to accept free tickets from Arsenal FC – but he’s not in Nixon’s league.Except, perhaps, was there just a touch of Tricky Dicky about Starmer’s meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, at last week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro? Watergate aside, Nixon is famous for his groundbreaking 1972 visit to Beijing, which opened the way to normalised r...

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10 hours ago DAN HODGES: Out of touch Starmer should be talking to furious farmers and freezing pensioners

So, Sir Keir Starmer has finally decided to grace us with his presence. After another week of globe-trotting, he flew back to a sub-zero Britain.

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10 hours ago Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders marks pivotal moment in international law | Beth McKernan

Charges against Israeli prime minister and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant mark first time western-affiliated leaders have been targeted for war crimesThe international criminal court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the war in Gaza has been welcomed by Palestinians as a landmark moment in their decade-long fight to challenge the Israeli occupation through international institutions.Thursday’s announcement from the international criminal court’s pretrial chamber of arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has sent shockwaves through the international legal system. As the first time that officials from a democratic, western-allied state have been charged with war crimes, it is wide...

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11 hours ago Donald Trump ally warns Keir Starmer the US will ‘crush’ the UK economy if it helps arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

Senator Lindsey Graham hit out at US allies warning they should not comply with the warrant for the Israeli leader issued by the ICC

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