2 h. ago Rachel Reeves vows to be Chancellor in two years time as she pleads for Labour unity head of Budget

Chancellor calls for unity as she speaks in front of restive backbenchers ahead of the Budget

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56 h. ago Labour MPs say Starmer will quit in the New Year before he's forced to face a leadership challenge... and only NINE percent of voters think he'll still be Prime Minister after the next election

At the start of a crunch week for the PM, with one of the most anticipated Budgets of modern times taking place against the backdrop of plots against him, MPs are suspicious of his 'new zen-like mood'.

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59 h. ago Labour MPs say Starmer will quit in the New Year... before he's forced to face a leadership challenge

Despite Labour languishing at 18 percent in the polls - and Cabinet colleagues openly jostling for his job, one backbencher who met him recently said: 'He was very chilled.

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5 d. ago Labour plot to oust Starmer gathers pace: Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging PM and thanks rebel for offer to QUIT so he can make Commons comeback

Andy Burnham is at the centre of renewed speculation after a rebel MP dramatically offered to give up his seat.

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5 d. ago Labour plot to oust Starmer gathers pace as Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging PM and thanks rebel for offer to QUIT so he can challenge struggling PM

Andy Burnham is at the centre of renewed speculation after a rebel MP dramatically offered to give up his seat.

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5 d. ago Andy Burnham dodges on Labour MP's offer to QUIT so he can challenge struggling Keir Starmer

Andy Burnham is at the centre of renewed speculation after a rebel MP dramatically offered to give up his seat.

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer furiously told 'be a man' in parliament as plot to oust PM thickens

Reform UK MP Lee Anderson challenged Sir Keir Starmer over delayed local elections in a fiery PMQs clash, with the Prime Minister later calling on Nigel Farage to explain himself

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6 d. ago Prime Minister Keir Starmer to address nation today as 'nearly half' want him out at next election

A poll of Labour voters shows that they want the Labour leader gone before the next General Election, which could play a big factor in today's Prime Minister's Questions

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7 d. ago Starmer facing backlash from Labour MPs over ‘cruel’ asylum reforms

The controversial plans to tackle the asylum system have been likened to the policies of far right activist Tommy Robinson

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7 d. ago Mahmood sets out plans for tougher asylum system in face of Labour resistance

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said even people who are genuine refugees ‘asylum shop’ their way across Europe before choosing the UK.

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7 d. ago Starmer facing growing backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live

Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UKMomentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the government’s asylum plans. In a statement it says:The home secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic.Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity.Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support.The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election.Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening:Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live

Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UKMomentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the government’s asylum plans. In a statement it says:The home secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic.Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity.Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support.The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election.Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening:Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Sharks circle wounded Starmer: Now Angela Rayner makes her pitch to Labour saying she has 'not gone away'

The humiliating failure of No10's pre-emptive strike on rivals last week has effectively fired the starting gun on a race to succeed Keir Starmer.

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1 week ago ‘Their credibility has been shot to pieces’: Labour MPs turn on Starmer and Reeves

Income tax U-turn adds to mood of despair among party’s backbenchers

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1 week ago Anarchy in government as PM's 'nemesis' Wes Streeting celebrates Reeves' humiliating income tax U

Health Secretary Wes Streeting - seemingly emboldened by a botched Downing Street 'hit job' on his leadership ambitions this week - has publicly declared that he had not supported the move.

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1 week ago Markets get jitters after Reeves DROPS Budget plan to hike income tax amid panic that Labour MPs will oust Starmer but she could slash thresholds instead to fill £30bn black hole

The Pound has already taken a hit after the extraordinary U-turn emerged overnight, following weeks of signals that the move would go ahead.

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1 week ago Markets hammer Reeves after she DROPS Budget plan to hike income tax amid panic that Labour MPs will oust Starmer but she could slash thresholds instead to fill £30bn black hole

The Pound has already taken a hit after the extraordinary U-turn emerged overnight, following weeks of signals that the move would go ahead.

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1 week ago Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson

His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the priceWes Streeting was always meant to be their Labour prime minister. The plan, hatched by a tiny clique of rightwing faction fighters, was this: find a candidate on whom they could fake a continuation Corbynism project to win the leadership. Then kick the ladder away from the people who backed them and the promises they made. At the next general election, given the scale of the Tory majority after 2019, get Labour back in the ring with more MPs and then hand over to Streeting. The real grownups would then be in charge and the subsequent election would be secured.But no one reckoned with Covid, Tory turmoil and the collapse of the SNP. Suddenly Keir Starmer wasn’t going to just lead Labour to a better defeat and a springboard for victory next time. Against the odds, he was going to win. Just as Jeremy Corbyn was Labour’s accidental leader in 2015, Starmer wa...

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1 week ago Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson

His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the priceWes Streeting was always meant to be their Labour prime minister. The plan, hatched by a tiny clique of rightwing faction fighters, was this: find a candidate on whom they could fake a continuation Corbynism project to win the leadership. Then kick the ladder away from the people who backed them and the promises they made. At the next general election, given the scale of the Tory majority after 2019, get Labour back in the ring with more MPs and then hand over to Streeting. The real grownups would then be in charge and the subsequent election would be secured.But no one reckoned with Covid, Tory turmoil and the collapse of the SNP. Suddenly Keir Starmer wasn’t going to just lead Labour to a better defeat and a springboard for victory next time. Against the odds, he was going to win. Just as Jeremy Corbyn was Labour’s accidental leader in 2015, Starmer wa...

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1 week ago Prime minister's coalition makes a strong showing in Iraqi elections, but no single bloc dominates

Iraqi election officials have announced preliminary results for Iraq’s parliamentary elections, showing traditional powers still dominate their regions

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