10 h. ago Starmer apologises after encouraging pupils to take part in viral trend: ‘I didn’t start it, Miss’

‘You know children get into trouble for saying that in school,’ the teacher toldthe prime minister after he participated in the viral ‘6-7’ trend with pupils

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15 h. ago Starmer forced to apologise to teacher after encouraging pupils to take part in banned ‘6

‘You know children get into trouble for saying that in school’, the teacher told Sir Keir Starmer after he participated in the viral ‘6-7’ trend with pupils

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17 h. ago Starmer ‘told off’ by teacher after encouraging students to do 6

Sir Keir Starmer participated in the viral 6-7 trend with primary school children during a visit to Peterborough.

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6 d. ago Jess Glynne and the viral TikTok trend helps drive record Jet2 holiday demand

‘Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday’ advertising slogan featured in 11.8 million social media posts

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8 d. ago Labour has entered its musical chairs era. Don’t fall for another pointless death spiral | Nesrine Malik

Briefing wars, toxic infighting, paranoid office politics: we’ve seen it all before. And once again, the drama at No 10 has absolutely nothing to do with us Sorry, what just happened? Before we hurtle on to the next instalment of Labour government drama, let’s pause for a second to recap. So Keir Starmer’s allies briefed against Wes Streeting accusing him of plotting a leadership challenge, then Streeting denied the claims, and Starmer apologised for them, before belatedly claiming the briefing had not come from Downing Street at all. A claim so implausible that a government source said journalists “must have all been tricked by several impostors posing as No 10 staff”.If this sounds farcical, vaguely embarrassing for all concerned and massively irrelevant to your life, you would be right. But in between the first chapter and the last (or perhaps the penultimate, given the aftershocks still reverberating through No 10), the episode acted as a masterclass in the patterns that define ...

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8 d. ago Labour has entered its musical chairs era – and we’re sucked into another pointless death spiral | Nesrine Malik

Briefing wars, toxic infighting, paranoid office politics: we’ve seen it all before. And once again, the drama at No 10 has absolutely nothing to do with us Sorry, what just happened? Before we hurtle on to the next instalment of Labour government drama, let’s pause for a second to recap. So Keir Starmer’s allies briefed against Wes Streeting accusing him of plotting a leadership challenge, then Streeting denied the claims, and Starmer apologised for them, before belatedly claiming the briefing had not come from Downing Street at all. A claim so implausible that a government source said journalists “must have all been tricked by several impostors posing as No 10 staff”.If this sounds farcical, vaguely embarrassing for all concerned and massively irrelevant to your life, you would be right. But in between the first chapter and the last (or perhaps the penultimate, given the aftershocks still reverberating through No 10), the episode acted as a masterclass in the patterns that define ...

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1 week ago Who could be behind the phantom briefing and the tax rise that wasn’t? Inspector Starmer is on the case | Marina Hyde

Chaos and ineptitude dog our poor PM. Perhaps the explanation lies (very) close to homeAt this rate the only businesses who will want to invest in Britain after the budget are heroin dealers. No 10 used to have a news grid, now it has an apology grid. Even so, why did Keir Starmer apologise for a sensationally self-destructive round of briefing against Wes Streeting if he didn’t do it? This is like me apologising for accidentally releasing sex offenders from prison. I suppose there is the occasional previous example in public life. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor apologised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein and gave a woman he’d never met a reported £12m. Perhaps that provides the prime minister with the warming cover of precedent.If you’re just joining us, this is a week in which the government finally achieved the chaos spiral of several recent Conservative administrations. We can now officially say: same car, different clowns. We are less than two weeks out from the budget, wit...

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1 week ago Ed Miliband urges Labour to move on after Starmer apologises to Streeting for hostile briefings from No 10 – UK politics live

Fallout from extraordinary briefing operation against Wes Streeting continues as calls grow for Starmer to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneyGood morning. In an interview around this time yesterday morning, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that if Keir Starmer were to ring him about the anti-Streeting briefing by Starmer allies reported by the Guardian and others on Tuesday, Streeting would reply: “Why are you bothering with this.” It was an attempt to play down a new episode of Labour turmoil that has turned out to counter-productive for Starmer, but helpful for Streeting, and by the time the two men did speak last night, the conversation took a different tone.Starmer apologised to Streeting, journalists have been told. The conversation was short, and they did not discuss Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff, whom Starmer is now under pressure to sack. The pair also agreed they would speak again soon – which doesn’t mean much (they both attend cabinet, and have...

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1 week ago Sir Keir Starmer apologises to Wes Streeting for briefing war as 'attack completely unacceptable'

The Health Secretary earlier hit out at the “toxic culture” of No 10

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1 week ago Starmer apologises to Streeting for briefing war and launches probe into source

The Prime Minister was forced to condemn briefings against his Cabinet after reports about a possible Wes Streeting coup.

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2 w. ago TikTok influencers are putting raw potato slices in their socks at bedtime. Experts weigh in on dubious health trend

‘Toxin-targeting’ trend has gone viral

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2 w. ago Starmer Government backtracks after telling BBC to apologise to Trump over 'fake news' storm

No10 declines to repeat comments from a minister telling the Corporation to say sorry to the US president over its mistake in editing one of his speeches

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2 w. ago 'Apologise to Trump,' Starmer Government tells BBC as president threatens $1 billion lawsuit over 'fake news'

The Conservatives said the Corporation should ‘grovel’ to the US president

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3 w. ago Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis and Kyle MacLachlan reunite in TikTok trend

Kristin Davis and Kyle MacLachlan, who played on-screen husband and wife in Sex and the City, have reunited in a viral TikTok trend.

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves apologises for south London family home rental rule break Sir Keir Starmer rules out need for investigation into Reeves’ rental rule break

The Prime Minister made the decision after consulting his independent ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus.

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4 w. ago Gordon Ramsay shows off his unlikely rapping skills as he joins Jennifer Lopez who performs alongside original singer Linda Perry leading the stars in viral Beez In A Trap TikTok trend

The celebrity chef, 58, showed off his unlikely rapping skills as he lip-synched to the song which is a mash up of Nicky Minaj's hit with 4 Non Blonde's What's Up.

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