49 m. ago 10 ways Labour will make your life better after first year in power

While it's been a tricky first year for Keir Starmer and co, there are lots of success stories they can point to, from free school meals, breakfast clubs and the minimum wage going up as well as jobs being saved

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2 h. ago The leadership rumours inside Labour that speak volumes about Starmer’s future

Voters are unconvinced they have seen much change after the ‘14 years of Tory failure’ that Starmer so often talks about. Every day that this sentiment is allowed to fester, the likelihood of a coup within the Labour Party increases, writes Millie Cooke

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5 h. ago The 10 moments that defined Keir Starmer’s first year in office

Sir Keir Starmer celebrates his first year as prime minister with the largest parliamentary majority in a quarter of a century — a commanding mandate that has brought both opportunity and scrutiny.

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5 h. ago A year of Keir: Mirror experts cast their verdict on Labour's first 12 months

After 12 months in Government, the Mirror digs into Keir Starmer's performance in key areas from the NHS, the economy and education to defence, foreign affairs and policing

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6 h. ago ‘We promised change but people aren’t feeling it yet’: Labour rues poor first year

MPs, aides and other party figures reflect on what went wrong and how they could still turn things aroundIn a stiflingly hot room at a health centre in East London, as he announced the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS on Thursday, Keir Starmer was confronted with a brutal assessment of his first year in power.“You’ve U-turned on your reforms, your MPs don’t trust you, and markets worry that you’ve lost resolve on fiscal discipline. It’s the epitome, isn’t it, of sticking-plaster politics and chaos that you promised voters you would end?” a television journalist asked. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Tell us what you think of Starmer's Labour party after one year in UK government

One year has passed since Keir Starmer was elected to power on July 5, 2024

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11 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: We've become an unserious country. We're rudderless, adrift in a sea of troubles rather than in command of our destiny. And our leaders are to blame.

By common consent, on the Left almost as much as on the Right, Keir Starmer has got off to the worst start ever of any incoming British Prime Minister.

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12 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer under mounting Labour rebel pressure to scrap two

Sir Keir Starmer is coming under mounting pressure from within his own Cabinet to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite Treasury warnings over a lack of funding to ditch the policy.

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13 h. ago Keir Starmer: I'm a 'hard enough b*****d' to lead the country... despite collapsing under pressure to own MPs over benefit cuts

In a bizarre aside, the Prime Minister pushed back against suggestions that recent U-turns have wrecked his political authority.

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13 h. ago It’s time to show us that things are going to get better, prime minister

Editorial: Despite a tumultuous and, at times, disappointing first year in office, Keir Starmer remains the best person for the job, streets ahead of any alternative leader who might theoretically replace him. But now he needs to rewire his relationship with the British people

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13 h. ago We now know what Starmerism is – but the prime minister lacks an inspirational vision

As Sir Keir Starmer marks a year since his huge general election victory, he still has a lot to prove if he wants to continue being prime minister, writes David Maddox

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15 h. ago Reeves says welfare fallout ‘damaging’ and declines to rule out tax hikes

The Chancellor warned there would be ‘costs to what happened’ as she faced questions about how she would cover the shortfall left by concessions.

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15 h. ago Labour's year of lies and failure: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch lambasts Keir Starmer's record on the economy and migration

Kemi Badenoch today accuses Keir Starmer of a 'year of lies and U-turns' which have left Britain poorer and less secure.

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16 h. ago KEMI BADENOCH: Even my Leftie pals can't believe the mess Labour has got us in... we have Corbyn's party with Keir Starmer at the helm

My Left-leaning, champagne-socialist friends were so excited at the prospect of a Labour government last year. 'Of course we want you to win Kemi,' they told me, 'but it's time for change'.

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18 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer boasts about 'good personal relationship' with Donald Trump

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claims he understands what US President Donald Trump “really cares about” and says it's “in the national interest” for the two leaders to connect. The first time they spoke was after Mr Trump was shot at a campaign rally

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19 h. ago John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s future – from welfare U

Chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s deepening welfare crisis, the rise of a Corbyn-Sultana breakaway party, and what it all means for Keir Starmer’s grip on government

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19 h. ago Voices: One year on, is Starmer still the best man Labour has for the job?

There’s a lot the prime minister – and his team – could learn from their party’s own history. What’s preventing them is ego and self-denial, writes Anthony Seldon

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19 h. ago Martin Rowson on a year of Keir Starmer’s government – cartoon

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22 h. ago Britons deliver a devastating verdict on Keir Starmer's first year in power... so what DO they think has been his biggest achievement?

More in Common asked voters to offer their one or two-word responses to Labour's best and worst actions of the party's first 12 months in power to create a word cloud.

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22 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn says ‘discussions are ongoing’ after Zarah Sultana claimed she would ‘co

Sultana announced on Thursday she was quitting Labour to join Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent AllianceMy colleague Lauren Almeida, who is running the Guardian’s business live blog, has shared the following:Rachel Reeves has not given herself enough fiscal headroom to manage public finances, Charlie Bean, the former deputy of the Bank of England has said, and has to “neurotically fine tune taxes”.About £10bn – that’s a very small number in the context of overall public spending. Government spending is about one and a quarter trillion so £10bn is a small number and it is a small number in the context of typical forecasting errors.You can’t forecast the future perfectly both because you can’t forecast the economy and you can’t forecast all the elements of public finances . The forecasts are imprecise and there is no way you can avoid that. That is a fact of life.In light of reports of atrocities committed by the Israeli government in Gaza and reports of the UK’s collaboration with Israeli ...

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