96 m. ago Starmer backs Streeting and refutes ‘completely unacceptable’ No 10 leaks over ‘coup attempt’: Latest

The Prime minister has condemned briefings against health secretary by senior Downing Street aides overnight

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3 h. ago Politics latest: Starmer backs Streeting and refutes ‘completely unacceptable’ No 10 leaks over ‘coup attempt’

Sir Keir said at PMQs that ‘any attack on any member of my Cabinet is completely unacceptable’ after briefings against Wes Streeting by Downing Street aides overnight

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8 h. ago UK politics live: Wes Streeting denies plan to challenge Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer’s allies say prime minister is prepared to fight any attempt to topple him

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8 h. ago Wes Streeting accuses Downing Street of ‘trying to kneecap’ him in leadership row

Sir Keir Starmer’s allies say prime minister is prepared to fight any challenge

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15 h. ago Downing Street warns plotting ministers that Starmer will fight attempted coup

Wes Streeting denies making moves to replace the PM as other ministers also linked to background manoeuvres

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16 h. ago Downing Street warn plotting ministers that Starmer will fight attempted coup

Wes Streeting denies plotting to replace the PM amid reports several ministers making moves to replace PM

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6 d. ago Disgraced former king of Spain’s memoir details ‘enormous respect’ for Franco

The book, published 11 years after Juan Carlos’ abdication, chronicles his anointment as heir to the dictator, as well as the death of his younger brotherA newly published memoir by Spain’s disgraced former king chronicle his anointment as heir to the dictator Francisco Franco, his role in saving democracy from a coup attempt in 1981 and his grief at the death of his younger brother when the two were “playing” with a pistol as teenagers.The book, published 11 years after Juan Carlos’ abdication and exile, is titled Reconciliation, but it appears to do anything but, instead detailing how he feels abandoned and misunderstood by his son and heir, King Felipe VI, and by other close family members. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jittery Kremlin fears coup attempt to topple Putin from within by exiled billionaire Russian oil tycoon

Russian authorities opened a fresh investigation against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the country's richest man and one of Putin's fiercest critics.

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