4 h. ago She's out, but the door is still open... PM tells Rayner: You will still be a major party figure

Following days of bluster and misinformation, the Deputy Prime Minister finally resigned when a report by the Government's sleaze watchdog found she broke the Ministerial Code.

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6 h. ago Keir Starmer makes David Lammy deputy PM as Angela Rayner resignation sparks major cabinet reshuffle

Reshuffle takes place on tumultuous day at the top of Government as Rayner forced to quit over stamp duty scandal

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8 h. ago Government 'super ministry' explained as major cabinet reshuffle underway after Rayner resignation

A major reshuffling has been underway on Friday after Angela Rayner's resignation of Deputy PM

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8 h. ago Starmer forced to shake up top team after Rayner resigns over tax row

Reeves the only senior minister to keep her job as PM forced into major reshuffle after Rayner resigns for breaching the ministerial code

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9 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer makes major Cabinet reshuffle after Rayner quits over tax row

Ms Rayner quit Government following an official probe into her admission she did not pay enough stamp duty when she bought a seaside home.

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer completes major cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty scandal

Shabana Mahmood is the new Home Secretary, David Lammy will take over a Deputy Prime Minister and Steve Reed becomes Housing Secretary

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10 h. ago Starmer kicks off major reshuffle after Angela Rayner leaves Government

Shabana Mahmood, formerly the justice secretary, is the new Home Secretary, the PA news agency understands.

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10 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Starmer makes Lammy deputy PM and Cooper foreign secretary after Rayner resignation

Keir Starmer has started a major cabinet reshuffle after saying he was 'very sad' Rayner's time in government had come to an end

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11 h. ago Angela Rayner replaced by David Lammy as Deputy PM in major Keir Starmer reshuffle

Keir Starmer has announced changes to his top team after Angela Rayner's resignation as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary

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11 h. ago Ministers sacked in cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty fiasco: UK Politics live

Keir Starmer has started a major cabinet reshuffle after saying he was 'very sad' Rayner's time in government had come to an end

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12 h. ago Starmer cabinet reshuffle: Who is in and who is out as PM overhauls his top team

Prime minister has launched a major reshuffle after Angela Rayner’s resignation

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12 h. ago Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty fiasco as Starmer’s cabinet reshuffle begins: UK Politics live

Keir Starmer is set to begin a major cabinet reshuffle after saying he was 'very sad' Rayner's time in government had come to an end

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13 h. ago Live updates as Angela Rayner resigns and Keir Starmer forced to make major changes

The deputy prime minister has resigned from the UK Government after a row over stamp duty on second home

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14 h. ago Who could replace Angela Rayner as she resigns over stamp duty row?

Serving as both deputy prime minister and housing secretary, Angela Rayner’s resignation is a major headache for the prime minister. But who are the likely candidates to replace her?

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5 d. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

Venice film festival The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figureGiuliano da Empoli’s smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin, about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov and based on shadowy Russian politician Vladislav Surkov, has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious and literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover. It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, playing a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people present that it was the communism they’ve just rejected that really believed in the arts.The action takes us through the 1990s decline of ailing president Boris Yeltsin and the promotion of FSB chief Vlad...

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1 week ago Police arrest 140 revellers on day one of Notting Hill Carnival after colourful start to street party: Figures up 40% on last year amid Met crackdown

In an update at 8pm on Sunday, the force said dozens of arrests were made on the opening day, including 15 for assaults on police.

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2 w. ago Labour Party membership falls by almost 200,000 in five years

Figures published on Thursday showed the party’s membership was 333,235 at the end of last year – well down on its 532,046 members at the end of

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2 w. ago Labour councillor who sexually abused vulnerable schoolgirl in his office learns his fate

David Graham, who was said to be a senior figure in the Scottish Labour party, groomed and sexually abused a vulnerable teenager over a six-month period in 2023

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2 w. ago The Labour right wants Wes Streeting in No 10. Why? What does he really stand for? | Oliver Eagleton

The way the health secretary has overseen the NHS give clues as to what a Streeting premiership might look likeOliver Eagleton is the author of The Starmer Project: A Journey to the RightJust over a year after Keir Starmer entered Downing Street, his political survival already looks uncertain. Perennially indecisive, unpopular with the public and unable to pass major legislation without rebellions, the prime minister has reportedly been put “on notice” by senior figures within his party. Speculation about a potential successor is mounting.What would Labour’s dominant faction – the neo-Blairite right – look for in a candidate? Their best bet would be an effective operator who doesn’t carry too much political baggage, a decent communicator, free of Starmer’s stumbling reticence, and a committed partisan of their cause: namely the free market and a strong state. They need someone who will go on the offensive for these values, rather than offering the bland apologetics that we have seen...

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2 w. ago Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock calls for Keir Starmer to scrap two

Lord Kinnock, who led Labour in opposition between 1983 and 1992, is the latest senior party figure to pressure the current Government to end the two-child limit on benefits.

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