6 d. ago Reform membership overtakes Labour for first time after Keir Starmer's party suffers 100,000 plunge in numbers since election

Leaked figures suggest Keir Starmer's party has lost around 100,000 activists in the wake of his historic win.

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1 week ago Keir Starmer says ‘hugely talented’ Angela Rayner will return to cabinet

PM gives clearest indication yet of comeback, calling former deputy ‘the best social mobility story’ the country has seenUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has predicted that Angela Rayner will return to the cabinet, calling his former deputy, who resigned in September after underpaying stamp duty on a property purchase, “hugely talented”.In an interview with the Observer, the prime minister described Rayner, who left school aged 16 without any qualifications, as “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Keir Starmer confirms Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet after underpaying stamp duty

The former deputy prime minister and housing secretary resigned in September after an ethics probe found she breached ministerial code over stamp duty on her flat in Hove

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1 week ago Sir Keir Starmer says former deputy Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet

Ms Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary in September after an ethics probe found that she breached the ministerial code.

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1 week ago ‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?

The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its nameFor much of the last week, Keir Starmer’s government has been suggesting that a closer relationship with Europe will be a more prominent part of his agenda in the future.But it was a little-noted personnel change that might prove the most telling shift: Nick Thomas Symonds, the minister in charge of EU negotiations, was promoted to full cabinet rank. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago She's back! Angela Rayner makes first intervention since her dramatic departure from Cabinet as she pushes Government to speed up introduction of her workers' rights bonanza

The former Deputy Prime Minister will on Wednesday stage her first policy intervention since she dramatically quit the Cabinet in September over the tax bill due on her seaside home.

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3 w. ago Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

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3 w. ago Reeves gets more abuse because she is a woman, Starmer suggests

Rachel Reeves told The Times Magazine this week that she was ‘sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me’.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer suggests he wants Angela Rayner back in Cabinet before next election

Keir Starmer opens the door for ex-Deputy PM Angela Rayner's return after she was forced to quit in September over not paying enough stamp duty on her seaside home in Hove

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer responds to calls for Andrew Windsor to give US Epstein evidence

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor should give evidence to the US on its Jeffrey Epstein probe, Keir Starmer has suggested, after the disgraced former prince ignored a Congress deadline

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4 w. ago Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests

Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodusUp to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests.Keir Starmer has vowed to curb net migration, with plans to force migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years. Continue reading...

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