4 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer urged by stars to protect creative industry amid copyright fears

Celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney, Coldplay and Robbie Williams are all asking Sir Keir Starmer to protect the creative copyright of their work

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4 h. ago Coldplay and Dua Lipa urging PM to protect creative industry amid copyright fears

British pop superstars Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney have urged the Prime Minister to protect copyright law and back a key amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill

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15 h. ago Dua Lipa among stars urging PM to protect creative industry amid copyright fears

Signatories to the letter also include Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Russell T Davies and Robbie Williams.

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15 h. ago Dua Lipa among stars urging PM to protect creative industry 'lifeblood' from AI models

The letter urges Sir Keir Starmer to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill which would require tech companies to be transparent about the creative content they use to train generative AI models

Events

19 h. ago Trump ‘committed’ to 10% tariff rate despite deal, says White House

Sir Keir Starmer has declined to rule out the possibility of changes to tech taxes in any future agreement.

Economics

22 h. ago Ukraine ‘absolute focus’ for UK and northern European allies – Sir Keir Starmer

The Prime Minister was in Norway on Friday for a series of meetings.

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26 h. ago Rachel Reeves insists welfare system needs reform amid disquiet on benefit cuts

Some 42 backbenchers said the planned cuts were ‘impossible to support’ in a letter to Sir Keir Starmer.

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27 h. ago Sue Gray calls on Starmer to support Afghan women and girls in first remarks since sacking

Sue Gray was sacked in October after losing a bitter power struggle with Sir Keir Starmer’s elections chief Morgan McSweeney

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27 h. ago US trade deal a ‘political win’ but will do little for UK growth, say experts

Sir Keir Starmer said the trade agreement struck on Thursday is a ‘historic’ deal, but economists played down the benefits for the economy at large.

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29 h. ago Ministers deny handing Donald Trump's White House a 'veto' over Chinese investment in the UK in the terms of new US trade deal

Darren Jones said reports that the White House would be able to block sources of foreign cash were 'nonsense', the day after Sir Keir Starmer and the president announced a tariff-reduction agreement.

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31 h. ago Thousands of UK workers feared ‘days’ away from job losses without new US

The deal, hailed as ‘historic’ by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, offers a lifeline to British industries

Economics

38 h. ago Keir Starmer's government has spent £566,000 on foreign visas for civil servants so far this year

EXCLUSIVE: FOI data showed Sir Keir Starmer 's government spent at least £566,000 on visas for foreign nationals in the first eight months after last July's election.

Economics

38 h. ago Champion League ambush: Donald Trump called Sir Keir Starmer late at night to discuss sorting a trade deal... while PM's beloved Arsenal was playing

In Downing Street on Wednesday night, not for the first time, Keir Starmer had Europe on his mind.

Sport

41 h. ago What Donald Trump's 'major trade deal' with UK will mean as Tories say we've been shafted

Sir Keir Starmer met with the orange manbaby and hailed the trade deal as 'historic' in what it will bring to Britain - but thee opposition party had another word for it

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42 h. ago Donald Trump says he 'can't wait' to meet Pope Leo as he joins Sir Keir Starmer and world leaders in congratulating the first American pontiff

Donald Trump hailed the election as a 'great honor' for the United States as Pope Leo, 69, becomes the first American pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

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44 h. ago Months of talks, then a late scramble: how the UK finally struck a US trade deal

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed agreement to blunt impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs

Economics

44 h. ago Truth Social and football phone calls: the final hours of the UK

Sir Keir Starmer said the timing ‘couldn’t be more apt’.

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46 h. ago Trump ally and Mandelson laugh as Starmer references VE Day in US

Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Peter Mandelson laughed as Sir Keir Starmer celebrated a UK-US trade deal coinciding with Victory in Europe Day’s (VE Day) 80th anniversary on Thursday, 8 May.

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47 h. ago Donald Trump says there 'won’t be any red tape' in 'historic' UK

Donald Trump has praised Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for his handling of trade negotiations after the two countries made a deal "after years of failed talks"

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51 h. ago How Keir Starmer succeeded on US trade deal where four other prime ministers failed

Successive prime ministers chased the US for a trade deal, with Sir Keir Starmer finally striking lucky

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