38 minutes ago Keir Starmer says SNP has 'ran out of excuses' after questions raised over payment to Spanish firm

The Prime Minister was asked how £5.4m of taxpayers' cash was handed to Tradebe after a devastating fire at its depot in North Lanarkshire.

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74 minutes ago Keir Starmer laughs off election petition after Kemi Badenoch calls for him to resign

The Labour leader kicked off Prime Minister's Questions by acknowledging the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

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2 hours ago Starmer refuses to rule out further tax rises when challenged at PMQs to repeat what Reeves told CBI – UK politics live

PM said he was not going to write the next five years of budgetsWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Starmer hits back at Badenoch’s suggestion he resigns in light of general election petition

Sir Keir Starmer hit back at Kemi Badenoch's suggestion that he should resign in light of a petition calling for a general election during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 27 November.

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2 hours ago Starmer declines to repeat Chancellor’s pledge of no more borrowing or tax hikes

The Prime Minister was challenged in the Commons by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

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2 hours ago Keir Starmer refuses to say taxes won't rise AGAIN during PMQs clashes despite Rachel Reeves making the vow to business

In bad-tempered clashes at PMQs, Keir Starmer insisted he was 'not going to write the next five years of Budgets right here at this despatch box'.

Economics

3 hours ago PMQs live: Starmer refuses to rule out further tax rises when challenged to repeat what Reeves told CBI

PM said he was not going to write the next five years of budgetsWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago How Labour has been hammered in council elections during Keir Starmer's disastrous first five months as petition for new Westminster poll creeps towards 2.8m signatures

Keir Starmer's candidates have won just 53 of the 150 seats up for grabs on local authorities since July 4 - having previously held 75.

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4 hours ago Starmer may be ‘softening’ on Labour’s ‘tractor tax’, NFU president claims

After a meeting in No10 with Keir Starmer on Monday, NFU president Tom Bradshaw said there was ‘a more conciliatory tone’

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