47 h. ago Angela Rayner hits back after fresh rumours of 'joint ticket' pact plan by Wes Streeting so he can topple Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister

The disgraced former housing secretary was reportedly promised a Cabinet role if she backs Streeting for a future leadership run.

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56 h. ago Starmer clarifies position on EU after Lammy talks up customs union

The Prime Minister said Labour would be sticking to its manifesto, which pledged to deepen ties with the EU without returning to the customs union.

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7 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer reveals his favourite Scottish dish at first No.10 St Andrew's Day event in a decade

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer welcomed guests to Number 10 Downing Street to ‘celebrate Scotland’

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1 week ago Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

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2 w. ago Starmer and Trump agree teams will work together on Ukraine peace plan

Downing Street confirmed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had spoken to US President Donald Trump.

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2 w. ago Starmer dismisses coup talk as wasted time and praises Burnham’s work as mayor

Last week’s extraordinary briefing war within the Labour Party focused attention on the Prime Minister’s position.

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2 w. ago ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10UK politics live –latest updatesThe UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago No 10 calls on Farage to urgently address ‘disturbing allegations’ of past racist behaviour

Keir Starmer ramps up pressure on Reform leader, who has dismissed claims as ‘one person’s word against another’‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at schoolKeir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to urgently address multiple and detailed allegations of racist behaviour during his teenage years, as the Reform leader attempted to dismiss the claims as “one person’s word against another”.Pressure was put on Farage by the prime minister over what Downing Street said were “disturbing allegations” after the Guardian reported the testimony of more than a dozen school contemporaries, including an award-winning director who claimed to have been targeted with antisemitic abuse. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer warns Cabinet against ‘distractions’ after briefing row

The Prime Minister also made a plea for unity at the Tuesday meeting.

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2 w. ago Reed: Voters not going to give PM benefit of the doubt until they feel change

It came after Sir Keir Starmer used a newspaper interview to defend his premiership.

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3 w. ago Euan McColm: It’s a vision thing – and sitting duck Sir Keir Starmer does not have it

Undermined by a crisis overseen by his own chief of staff, the Prime Minister is now a sitting duck with Wes Streeting the most credible candidate to replace him

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Would Wes Streeting be a better prime minister than Sir Keir Starmer?

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has long been tipped as a future prime minister ever since he led the National Union of Students and he has refused to rule out leadership ambitions.

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3 w. ago Streeting says he and Starmer ‘extremely frustrated’ by leadership row

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was targeted by briefings suggesting he was plotting a coup against Sir Keir Starmer.

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3 w. ago Prime Minister Streeting? The wheels are coming off! SARAH VINE lays bare Labour's 'Traitors plot' against Starmer

Keir Starmer is on a sticky wicket, he's had a terrible year and he's about to have a terrible, terrible budget.

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3 w. ago PM’s chief of staff ‘not involved’ in briefing against ministers – reports

Sir Keir Starmer has faced calls to sack his top adviser, Morgan McSweeney.

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3 w. ago Starmer defies calls to sack chief of staff, claiming briefing didn’t come from No 10

PM is standing by chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, despite calls to sack himKeir Starmer has attempted to draw a line under extraordinary briefings by his allies that No 10 feared Wes Streeting could launch a leadership coup, insisting he had been reassured it “didn’t come from Downing Street”.The prime minister gathered his senior staff to stress that briefings against cabinet ministers were “unacceptable” after apologising to Streeting for what had happened on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fury as No 10 signals Starmer is willing to pay billions to Brussels in return for closer EU trade deals

Downing Street has signalled that the Prime Minister is preparing to give in to EU demands for cash payments in return for improved access to the single market.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Starmer can’t afford to sack McSweeney, MPs say as new year coup rumours swirl

The prime minister says he has been ‘assured’ nobody in Downing Street briefed against his health secretary amid claims chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is ‘unsackable’

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