33 h. ago Net migration in UK falls by half in boost to Prime Minister Keir Starmer

The figures showed the figure fell to 431,000 in the year to December last year.

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34 h. ago Net migration halves in a year in huge boost to Keir Starmer

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals net migration dropped from 860,000 in the year ending December 2023 to 431,000 a year later.

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3 d. ago How Sir Keir raised the white flag to the EU again and again as deals on food, fish and free movement threaten to undo Brexit

Sir Keir Starmer said the reduction in trade barriers would boost the UK economy by £9billion a year by 2040.

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2 w. ago The art of dealing with Donald Trump? Don’t fight him alone | Jonathan Freedland

This week’s trade deal is a boost for Keir Starmer. But a lasting win will only come by joining forces with other nations to resist the US president’s entire destructive agendaDonald Trump wanted Thursday, like every day, to be all about him. He thought the news cycle would be dominated by his sealing of the first US trade deal since he blew a hole in the world economy with the dynamite of tariffs. He gathered his vice-president and several cabinet members in the Oval Office to announce the new agreement – with the UK, as it happens – only for the gaze of the world to be diverted. All eyes were on Rome, where Trump was upstaged by one of the few global players who can outdo him when it comes to putting on a show.Don’t think Trump is not simultaneously wondering how he can use that whole white-smoke thing – perhaps to signal his winning of a constitutionally prohibited third term in 2028 – and worrying that Leo XIV is a serious rival for the commodity he craves more than any other: a...

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2 w. ago Sir Keir Starmer announces boost in defence spending at King's conference

Sir Keir Starmer announces boost in defence spending at King's conference  King's College London

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4 w. ago Keir Starmer sets out plan to boost jobs for welders and electricians at major summit

Keir Starmer will announce £300million in funding will be fast-tracked through the publicly owned energy company - Great British Energy - to invest in clean energy projects

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