46 m. ago Starmer declines to say if he will sack Rayner if she is found to have broken ministerial code – UK politics live

Keir Starmer has said that he expects to get the report from his ethics adviser on Angela Rayner quickly Reeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner after stamp duty errorKitty Donaldson from the i says Keir Starmer may get the report from his ethics adviser about Angela Rayner tomorrow.NEW: Senior Government sources are playing down reports ministerial watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus could send Sir Keir Starmer his report into Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s tax affairs as soon as today. One Whitehall source said tomorrow is more likely. Continue reading...

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79 m. ago Starmer says ‘of course’ he will act on standards probe into Rayner tax row

Angela Rayner has been under mounting pressure in recent weeks after reports emerged she had saved £40,000 in stamp duty.

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86 m. ago Angela Rayner graffiti: Will she be sacked by Sir Keir Starmer? What did the graffiti at her Hove flat say?

The graffiti has been daubed across parts of Angela Rayner’s flat in Hove, which is the subject of her tax affairs.

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96 m. ago This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10 | Owen Jones

A simple, terrible and obvious mistake is being made. The more Labour echoes Reform’s talking points, the more it strengthens themBritain isn’t sleepwalking into catastrophe; it’s charging towards it. Last year, a violent rightwing uprising tore through our streets – an attempted pogrom in which racists tried to burn asylum seekers alive, attacked homes and businesses thought to belong to migrants, petrol-bombed mosques and assaulted people of colour in broad daylight. That disgrace should hang permanently around the necks of the anti-migrant right, a warning of where scapegoating and toxic lies lead.Instead, the revolt succeeded. Anti-migrant rhetoric in politics and the press has grown more venomous. Reform UK now tops polls by a decisive margin. Its leader, Nigel Farage, raises the spectre of “major civil disorder” unless anti-migrant demands are met. Lucy Connolly – who was jailed after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire and is married to a former Conser...

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1 hour ago Starmer urges Ukraine allies to ‘go even further’ in pressure on Russia

The Prime Minister joined a virtual call of the coalition of the willing with around 25 world leaders on Thursday morning.

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2 h. ago The four Labour ministers ousted in scandals as pressure builds on PM to sack Angela Rayner

If Angela Rayner resigns over her stamp duty scandal, she will become the fifth Labour minister to lose their job over allegations of wrongdoing in just over a year

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2 h. ago Starmer hopes £10bn deal to build Norwegian warships in Glasgow is first of many

The Prime Minister met with BAE workers in the city on Thursday, saying their reputation is what won the contract.

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer hits out at 'appalling' vandalism at Angela Rayner's flat as Deputy PM's new seaside home is daubed with 'tax evader' graffiti amid stamp duty row

Ms Rayner's apartment in Hove, East Sussex, was targeted overnight following her tearful admission that she failed to pay enough stamp duty on the £800,000 property.

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3 h. ago TONY BLAIR INSTITUTE: Digital ID will help Keir Starmer solve immigration dirty secret

Ryan Wain, executive political director at the Tony Blair Institute, has said digital ID will 'kill the demand' for dodgy employers and said Keir Starmer is right to push the idea forward

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3 h. ago No 10 says Starmer ‘kept updated’ on Rayner tax issue but ‘final advice’ only arrived on Wednesday – UK politics live

Downing Street spokesman will not say when PM realised his deputy had not paid her full stamp duty liabilityReeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner after stamp duty errorKitty Donaldson from the i says Keir Starmer may get the report from his ethics adviser about Angela Rayner tomorrow.NEW: Senior Government sources are playing down reports ministerial watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus could send Sir Keir Starmer his report into Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s tax affairs as soon as today. One Whitehall source said tomorrow is more likely. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Prime Minister condemns graffiti outside Angela Rayner’s flat

Ms Rayner’s spokesperson has called the vandalism ‘totally unjustifiable and beyond the pale’ and said it is a matter for the police.

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5 h. ago Swinney accuses Starmer of ‘toadying along behind Farage’ on immigration

The First Minister said the language used by Westminster politicians on the issue in recent months has been ‘chilling’.

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5 h. ago Ryanair launches major baggage change from today at 235 airports

The airline has changed its carry-on luggage dimensions

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6 h. ago Keir Starmer looks like a schoolboy as 'world's tallest leader' towers over him on UK trip

Keir Starmer sits in the middle of the pack when it comes to the height of he G20 world leaders, but he looked very, very small when he came up against his Spanish counterpart

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6 h. ago Should Keir Starmer stick by Angela Rayner after stamp duty tax row? Vote in our poll

Keir Starmer stood by Deputy PM Angela Rayner in Prime Minister's Questions following the stamp duty row over the purchase of her second home - and we've asked Mirror readers to share their thoughts

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6 h. ago Ministers defend Rayner in tax row as fresh property purchase details emerge

Sources close to the Deputy Prime Minister said she was given three separate pieces of legal advice before buying an £800,000 property in Hove.

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6 h. ago Reeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner, and thinks deputy PM can keep her job – UK politics live

Chancellor offers unequivocal backing to colleague following stamp duty errorRachel Reeves, the chancellor, was also asked in her Sky News interview if the Rayner controversy showed that the stamp duty regime was “way too complicated”. Reeves sidestepped the question, saying:Well, look, Angela tried to do the right thing, and of course it is incumbent on all of us to try to properly understand the rules, and she is now working to make sure that the correct tax is paid.Well, the definitive advice came in on Wednesday morning, and that’s when Angela put out the statement.On Tuesday as well some court injunctions were lifted related to her disabled son and those circumstances, and that’s why Angela was able to make a full statement on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Starmer needs to show he is on the side of working people or Farage will become PM, warns Labour’s biggest backer

Ahead of the TUC congress next week, general secretary Paul Nowak has spoken to The Independent about why Keir Starmer’s government needs to introduce ‘popular’ wealth taxes in the Budget to combat Farage and Reform

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9 h. ago Nigel Farage meets Donald Trump in the Oval Office after hitting out at Keir Starmer's 'awful, authoritarian' UK over civil liberties

Nigel Farage has met with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office shortly after lambasting Sir Keir Starmer's online safety laws as 'awful' and 'authoritarian.'

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11 h. ago While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere | Rafael Behr

Far from No 10, Nigel Farage has been amassing power in the sprawling, networked space where 21st-century politics happensSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWith a buzz of activity in parliament and mandatory back-to-school metaphors, a new political season opens in Westminster, but is that where politics really happens? Yes, in terms of people making policy and law in buildings that are world-famous for that purpose, the SW1 postcode is where it is at.But the heart of the machine beats with a weak pulse. The UK state is heavily centralised by the standards of most democracies, yet the people at the centre don’t feel powerful. Ministers can’t enforce bin collections in remote areas or call a halt to Middle East wars but they are made to feel answerable for all that is ill in the world, from hyperlocal to geopolitical.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist ...

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