3 h. ago Starmer sacks Rachel Reeves' sister as flailing PM frantically tries to relaunch his Government by axeing MORE ministers in desperate attempt to save face 

Rachel Reeves ' younger sister Ellie has become the latest casualty as Sir Keir Starmer swung the axe through his junior ministers to frantically get his Government back on track.

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6 h. ago Flailing Starmer swings the axe AGAIN: Farming minister is shown the door, Home Office ministers are out as hapless PM tries to relaunch his Government

The PM turned his attention to the junior ministerial ranks after pulling the pin on a huge Cabinet overhaul yesterday.

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10 h. ago Labour admits it's failing: Starmer to axe more ministers TODAY as ally says explosive reshuffle is recognition of his disastrous start and migration fury

Keir Starmer is turning his attention to the junior ministerial ranks after pulling the pin on a huge Cabinet overhaul yesterday in the wake of Angela Rayner's resignation.

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11 h. ago Labour admits it's failing: Starmer's explosive reshuffle is a recognition of his disastrous start and migration fury, says ally

Keir Starmer is turning his attention to the junior ministerial ranks after pulling the pin on a huge Cabinet overhaul yesterday in the wake of Angela Rayner's resignation.

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23 h. ago The queue for Dover? Pictures show large group of men idling by notorious French people smuggling port as UK little boat arrivals pass 50,000 since Labour swept to power last year 

The milestone underscores the failure of Sir Keir Starmer 's 'smash the gangs' strategy, which critics have long insisted will not work without an effective deterrent for the migrants themselves.

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26 h. ago Angela Rayner 'looked like someone who knew she'd done wrong' before resignation

The firebrand Labour MP handed her resignation to Keir Starmer after admitting she had underpaid stamp duty on the £800,000 flat she recently bought in the well-to-do seaside neighbourhood of Hove

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34 h. ago LIVE: Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Minister

The Stockport-born Labour MP admitted failing to pay £40,000 in stamp duty, prompting an independent investigation into her tax affairs

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69 h. ago Angela Rayner's position is indefensible, hopeless and shameful. If Starmer fails to sack her, it will be an ineradicable stain on his government: STEPHEN GLOVER

Will the British public accept the version of herself that Angela Rayner put forward in her syrupy interview yesterday with Beth Rigby of Sky News?

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3 d. ago Tory anger as Kemi Badenoch 'misses open goal' and fails to make under

Mrs Badenoch urged Sir Keir Starmer to show 'backbone' and sack his deputy at the start of Prime Minister's Questions. But she used the rest of her questions on the economy.

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3 d. ago How can tax 'hypocrite' Angela Rayner possibly keep her job? Calls for her to quit grow as Starmer fails to guarantee her job after she admitted not paying enough stamp duty on £800k flat

The Deputy Prime Minister, dubbed 'Three Pads' Rayner in a row over her trio of homes, said she 'deeply regrets' the error made when purchasing her £800,000 apartment in Hove, East Sussex.

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3 d. ago ‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right

Spanish PM insists ‘migration is an opportunity’ and is not afraid to discuss what he considers Europe’s recent failuresWhen Pedro Sánchez and Keir Starmer meet in Downing Street on Wednesday it will be the first such bilateral summit between a Spanish prime minister and his British counterpart for more than a decade, an interregnum explained by Brexit and the now healed sore of Gibraltar.The absence of highest level diplomacy has become more glaring given the two men are the leading social democratic leaders of Europe, facing similar problems of migration, souring populist parties, the climate crisis and divisions over how to minimise the damage caused to the European global influence by Donald Trump’s erratic unilateralism. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over small boat migrants and asylum hotels amid ongoing protests

A poll has suggested that people believe Sir Keir Starmer is failing to grip the problem

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1 week ago 'Great' scent that stops spiders coming into your home this mating season

Spiders usually start to migrate indoors in late August as temperatures start to cool.

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2 w. ago Councils across the country poised to close migrant hotels: Labour's policy in chaos...as minister admits they have no idea where they'll rehouse asylum seekers

Yesterday, council leaders won the first step in their bid to have The Bell Hotel closed, after Mr Justice Eyre ruled the establishment must stop housing asylum seekers by September 12.

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3 w. ago Starmer accused of ‘abject failure’ as people smuggling arrests fall under Labour

National Crime Agency arrests for people smuggling went down last year, as the new Labour government promised more resources to target immigration crime.

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3 w. ago Over 50,000 small boat migrants cross Channel under Labour as Starmer fails to get a grip on crisis

Labour minister admits the number of small boat crossings under Starmer is ‘unacceptable’

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3 w. ago More than 50,000 migrants have crossed Channel since Keir Starmer became PM: Asylum seeker reaches Britain's shores every 11 minutes... but minister still insists it's 'not our fault'

The milestone underscores the failure of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer 's 'smash the gangs' strategy - with one migrant crossing every 11 minutes.

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3 w. ago Migrant channel crossings will hit a record 50,000 since Labour took office...but 'it's not our fault' says minister

The milestone underscores the failure of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer 's 'smash the gangs' strategy - with one migrant crossing every 11 minutes.

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3 w. ago Record 50,000 migrant Channel crossings since Labour came to power 'unacceptable', admits minister

Baroness Jacqui Smith, a former home secretary, said the record numbers of people making the dangerous journey showed how embedded criminal gangs had got under the previous Conservative government

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3 w. ago Shoplifting has 'got out of hand', Labour admits amid fury at data watchdog's advice NOT to share pictures of thieves because it 'breaches data protection'

On an advice page for tackling shoplifters, the watchdog said stores 'must only share personal information that's proportionate and necessary to achieve your purpose'.

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