6 h. ago Keir Starmer faces calls to SACK top legal adviser Lord Hermer after peer apologises for 'clumsy' speech comparing calls for UK to quit ECHR to early Nazi ideology

In an astonishing speech last night Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, hit out at right wing MPs and the media for being behind a 'siren song' pushing for Britain to drop international law.

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13 h. ago Labour minister defends Keir Starmer's top legal adviser over 'appalling' claim that calls for UK to quit ECHR echo early Nazi Germany

In an astonishing speech last night Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, hit out at MPs and the media for being behind a 'siren song' pushing for Britain to drop international law.

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21 h. ago Keir Starmer's top legal adviser claims calls to quit the ECHR are similar to those made by the Nazis

Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, hit out at MPs and the media for being behind a 'siren song' pushing for Britain to drop international law, in a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute.

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34 h. ago 'Political incompetence': Labour veteran John McDonnell calls for grassroots challenge to Keir Starmer's government

John McDonnell, who was suspended from the party last year for voting to scrap the two child benefit cap, accused the Prime Minister of ‘callousness and political incompetence’

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35 h. ago Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker join 300 other celebrities calling for Keir Starmer to stop all arms sales to Israel

The open letter urges the prime minister to "use all available means" to get humanitarian aid into the area

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36 h. ago Gary Lineker and Dua Lipa among stars calling on Keir Starmer to 'end UK’s complicity in horrors of Gaza'

Some 300 actors, musicians, activists and others used an open letter to call on the Prime Minister to ‘take immediate action’

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38 h. ago Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker join stars calling PM to halt all arms sales to Israel

Some 300 actors, musicians, activists and others used an open letter to call on the Prime Minister to ‘take immediate action’.

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on Farage’s cynical pitch: Labour must be bolder to see off the threat | Editorial

The Reform UK leader spies a route to power through appealing to blue collar voters. His speech is another wake-up call for Sir Keir Starmer’s governmentLast July, concluding his election victory speech after winning in Clacton, Nigel Farage announced that after inflicting grievous damage on the Conservative party that night, Reform UK would now “be coming for Labour”. Since then, on issues such as the nationalisation of Britain’s beleaguered steel industry, Mr Farage has carefully positioned his party as sympathetic to working-class concerns and fears. His heavily-trailed speech on Tuesday, in Westminster, was the most direct attempt yet to present himself as a new spokesperson for Labour’s traditional blue-collar voters.The most talented and cynical political opportunist of his generation, Mr Farage knows where the openings lie. Labour has tied itself in unedifying knots over its deeply unpopular cuts to the winter fuel allowance, and agonised over reversing the Tories’ ...

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1 week ago UK hits Israel with further sanctions and suspends trade talks over Gaza violence

But the foreign secretary was told by MPs from his own and four other political parties that he needs to go further and suspend arms sales to Israel

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1 week ago What can the UK actually do if Israel is sanctioned over Gaza bombardment?

Keir Starmer faces calls to impose restrictions on everything from sales of fighter-jet parts to bans from international music events

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1 week ago UK, France and Canada condemn ‘egregious actions’ by Netanyahu’s Israel

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney called for an end to the renewed military offensive and the expansion of aid.

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2 w. ago Motherwell and Wishaw MSP hits out at UK Government's immigration proposals

The SNP’s Clare Adamson joined calls from the care sector and other industries for Sir Keir Starmer to urgently abandon his proposed restrictions on international recruitment

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2 w. ago Putin calls for 'direct talks' with Ukraine to make 'lasting, strong peace' in rare late

In a rare late-night TV address on Sunday, he said Russia was proposing direct talks with Ukraine in an attempt 'to achieve the restoration of a long-term, lasting peace'.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer calls out Putin and says he has Trump's support

Vladimir Putin has been warned by European leaders that he has 24 hours to accept a 30-day ceasefire or he will face a raft of new sanctions

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer 'calls Putin out' as he and world leaders demand 30

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland arrived in Kyiv on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian President Zelensky in a show of unity of the 'coalition of the willing'.

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3 w. ago Body language expert reveals what 'anxious' Trump really said during trade deal announcement

EXCLUSIVE: A body language expert has spoken to the Daily Star about what Trump was really saying when he announced the US-UK trade deal on a joint call with Keir Starmer

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3 w. ago Champion League ambush: Donald Trump called Sir Keir Starmer late at night to discuss sorting a trade deal... while PM's beloved Arsenal was playing

In Downing Street on Wednesday night, not for the first time, Keir Starmer had Europe on his mind.

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3 w. ago Inside Donald Trump's last minute call to Keir Starmer as he watched Arsenal vs PSG

Keir Starmer said US President Donald Trump phoned him while he was watching his beloved Gunners take on Paris St Germain last night to discuss the new US-UK trade deal

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3 w. ago PM warned the UK risks The Hague over Gaza if arms sales to Israel do not end

Independent MP Shockat Adam asked if the UK will admit ethnic cleansing in Gaza and end all military cooperation with Israel.

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3 w. ago ‘You can’t do everything at same time’ says minister as Labour under pressure

Sir Keir Starmer has been facing calls to u-turn on his decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners.

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