18 h. ago Trump launches extraordinary attack on Labour's Net Zero drive branding wind farms 'unsightly' and urging more 'drilling' in North Sea

Donald Trump criticised Keir Starmer for focusing on 'costly and unsightly windmills' - insisting there should be more drilling in the North Sea.

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28 h. ago Angela Rayner 'urges Rachel Reeves to strip child benefits for middle

The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to 'claw back' the benefit from families where the top earner's annual salary was somewhere between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported.

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3 d. ago Food bank demand up by half in five years as charity urges Labour to act

“A whole generation” has now grown up in the UK while food banks are the norm, charity chief says

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3 d. ago Lammy ‘begged’ to ‘save children’s lives’ in Gaza as MPs call for tougher action

David Lammy announced new measures against Israel but Labour and Tory backbenchers urged him to go further.

Society

8 d. ago Minister resolute on benefit cuts amid threats of Labour rebellion

Some 100 Labour MPs are reported to have signed a letter urging ministers to scale back welfare cuts.

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9 d. ago Gaza crisis worsening says Starmer, as minister admits UK response not enough

Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer was heckled by Labour MPs who urged further sanctions against Israel.

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1 week ago PIP disability benefit changes begin as DWP review gets underway

Over 40 Labour MPs have urged the government to reassess the planned cuts

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1 week ago Despair at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ language as he clamps down on immigration

Backbench Labour MPs, unions and charities criticise the PM, who is urged to apologise for his ‘dangerous’ comments

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2 w. ago Starmer should learn from Thatcher about how to take on opponents – Louise Haigh

Louise Haigh, who had served as transport secretary, urged Labour to take action to avoid an ‘existential crisis’ at the next general election.

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2 w. ago Home Office failure to record when migrants on visas leave UK 'means border system will continue to fail'

Former Labour minister Clive Betts urged the Home Office to properly record when migrants leave the UK after their visa expires

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2 w. ago Mother convicted over unpaid £8.75 car tax bill while grieving death of baby in latest fast

The Labour government has not taken urgent action to fix the Single Justice Procedure

Economics

2 w. ago Welsh Labour first minister says she is ‘losing patience’ with Starmer’s policies

Eluned Morgan says her government will move ‘to the left’ and urges UK Labour to reconsider budget cutsUK politics live – latest updatesThe Welsh first minister and leader of the Welsh Labour party has said she is “losing patience” with UK Labour and made it clear she is “tacking to the left” as she tries to counter a growing threat from Reform UK and Plaid Cymru.Eluned Morgan told the Guardian she wanted Keir Starmer to rethink policy changes on welfare and the winter fuel allowance and described the Labour party as a “messy family”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Labour minister urged to quit over ‘dog whistle’ remark on grooming gangs

The Commons leader has apologised after suggesting on BBC Any Questions that raising concerns over Asian grooming gangs was ‘dog whistle’ politics

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2 w. ago Streeting says Reform are real threat and may become Labour’s main rivals

Health secretary asks public to give government time as he calls Farage’s party a ‘serious opposition force’Politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has said Reform is a real threat and could replace the Conservatives as the main opposition party by the next election, as he urged the public to give Labour the “benefit of the doubt”.The health secretary said Nigel Farage’s party was being treated as a “serious opposition force” after Reform’s success in the local elections, where it narrowly won a byelection from Labour and took 677 council seats, gaining control of 10 councils. Reform took most seats from the Conservatives, who lost 674, while Labour lost 187. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer told to 'stop going further and faster' after Labour's local election battering

Labour figures are urging Sir Keir Starmer to change course after Reform UK made sweeping gains in local elections across the UK, as the Prime Minister has said he would go "further and faster" in response to his party's poor result

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2 w. ago ‘No simple answers’ for Reform after local election success, senior Tory warns – UK politics live

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Labour MP Rachael Maskell has urged her party to scrap winter fuel and welfare policies that she said are pushing voters away, reports the PA news agency.The York Central MP told BBC Breakfast that Labour has “special responsibilities” to serve the needs of people.We’re not any other political party, we were created to serve the needs of people across working areas of our country so that people had a real voice of the kind of change that they wanted to see.I think it’s now time, if Labour are going to go further faster, to pick up that voice, to put our fingers on the pulse and to understand that that responsibility that the 1945 government set out putting that safety net in place at the welfare state is on our watch and is our responsibility.People went cold last winter and that’s not what a Labour government s...

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer urged to listen to voters amid Labour anger over by

Keir Starmer said Labour understood people's frustrations and vowed to go 'further and faster' to bring about change after a bruising local election night saw Reform make gains

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3 w. ago Stephen Flynn mocks Labour by urging Keir Starmer to campaign in Hamilton by

The SNP Westminster made the call to the PM directly after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said he did not expect Starmer to hit the campaign trail

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3 w. ago Kneecap's manager appears to praise terror leaders and compare Israel to the Nazis in unearthed social media posts

Last night, Jewish leaders wrote to organisers of the Glastonbury Festival demanding the rap group be 'immediately removed' from this year's line-up.

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3 w. ago MP calls for independent football regulator to play role in setting ticket prices

Labour MP Ian Byrne urged the government to ‘tackle the issue of the pricing out of working class supporters’ from football games

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