3 h. ago Glastonbury's Kneecap lead chants against Prime Minister Keir Starmer after BBC cut

The Irish band were axed from the BBC's live coverage following controversy

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3 h. ago Kneecap lead Glastonbury crowd in chants against Keir Starmer as BBC blocks live

Kneecap took to the stage at the West Holts Stage and said 'f*** Keir Starmer' as they said the UK Prime Minister has said their appearance at the festival would not be 'appropriate'

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4 h. ago Kneecap lead Glastonbury crowd in chants against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

In the run-up to the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, several politicians called for Kneecap to be removed from the line-up.

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4 h. ago Labour rule in Wales taken for granted and under threat at Senedd poll – Morgan

The Welsh First Minister warned that Reform are the biggest threat to the nation’s way pf life.

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6 h. ago Farage ‘plans to put business leaders in cabinet’ if Reform wins power

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer hits out at Reform UK leader, dubbing him a ‘wolf in Wall Street clothing’ who has ‘no idea what he's talking about’

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15 h. ago Kneecap to take to Glastonbury stage in what could be festival

Music executives have condemned Irish rappers and Keir Starmer says appearance is not ‘appropriate’, but 100 musicians have signed letter in supportKneecap will be taking to the Glastonbury stage on Saturday afternoon in front of a packed crowd eagerly anticipating what could be one of the most controversial sets in the festival’s history.The Irish rap group are performing at 4pm on the West Holts stage, amid criticism from music industry executives and from the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, who said it was not “appropriate” for the band to perform. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Kneecap to perform in what could be one of Glastonbury’s most controversial sets

Music executives have condemned Irish rappers and Keir Starmer says appearance is not ‘appropriate’, but 100 musicians have signed letter in supportKneecap will be taking to the Glastonbury stage on Saturday afternoon in front of a packed crowd eagerly anticipating what could be one of the most controversial sets in the festival’s history.The Irish rap group are performing at 4pm on the West Holts stage, amid criticism from music industry executives and from the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, who said it was not “appropriate” for the band to perform. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Funding for hospitals will be linked to patient feedback ratings in Starmer's 10

Patients' ratings of hospitals will be directly to the funding they receive from the government, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plans to overhaul the NHS.

Science

34 h. ago Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ using ‘island of strangers’ phrase

The Prime Minister said he had been ‘really shaken up’ after an alleged arson attack on his family home hours before the speech.

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35 h. ago Putin warns Keir Starmer 'I majored in law' as he claims UK has 'robbed' Russia

Russia President Vladimir Putin is seemingly playing a game of 'I'm a bigger lawyer than you' with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, despite not actually doing anything law-related for decades

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38 h. ago No 10 climbs down over welfare bill in move to win over Labour rebels

Compromises include exempting those currently receiving disability benefits and increasing health element of universal credit in line with inflationDowning Street has announced major changes to the welfare bill in an attempt to win the support of more than Labour 120 rebels who had threatened to vote against it next week and hand Keir Starmer a damaging first defeat as prime minister.Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, wrote to Labour MPs on Thursday night to lay out the concessions, which were thrashed out over 24 hours of negotiations between senior rebels and government officials. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Welcome back, PM. You didn't miss much, just a mutiny of MPs and a plot by Ange to depose you!

Good Heavens, it was Sir Keir Starmer ! The Prime Minister swaggered into the Commons at 11.30am. First time for over a fortnight. He was lucky a clerk didn't ask to check his security pass.

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55 h. ago Tory MP openly criticises Kemi Badenoch and challenges her to suspend him over national security row

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer told Conservative leader she would ‘never’ be PM

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2 d. ago Keir Starmer rebukes Wes Streeting over assisted dying NHS warning

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said assisted dying must be made workable after Health Secretary Wes Streeting voiced concerns about whether the NHS could afford to run it

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3 d. ago PM ‘confident’ on assisted dying law despite Streeting’s ‘no budget’ warning

Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting voted different ways on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

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3 d. ago Trump praises Nato leaders’ ‘historic’ agreement to hike defence spending

Prime minister Keir Starmer said this week’s Nato summit had sent a ‘decisive message to aggressors’ as allies ramped up their defence spending

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3 d. ago Starmer to press on with welfare reforms as 120 Labour MPs prepare to defy him

The Prime Minister said the ‘broken’ welfare system must be fixed.

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3 d. ago Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis breaks silence on Kneecap controversy

Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said he didn't think it was 'appropriate' for Irish band Kneecap to perform at Glastonbury after their pro-Palestine comments at Coachella

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3 d. ago DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer's time is up and his party 'have had enough'. That's the withering verdict from his own MPs... and this is what they tell me is coming next

'It's not a confidence vote,' Keir Starmer insisted plaintively yesterday, after it was put to him that his personal authority was on the line over the mounting rebellion against his disability benefit cuts.

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3 d. ago Trump’s state visit set for September due to King and US leader’s busy diaries

The Times reported that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has gone against the wishes of the King by bringing Mr Trump’s state visit forward.

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