3 h. ago Starmer in the endgame? Labour group that powered PM to No10 'looks for successor' as Rayner circles

Amid rising doubts about Keir Starmer's prospects of survival, the Labour Together think-tank has been quietly asking local parties for views on a successor.

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37 h. ago Met has lost more than 1,700 officers since Labour came to power

When Labour entered government, the Met boasted 33,767 officers but now has just 32,055, official figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer visits Scotland with six months to save his leadership amid Scottish Labour unrest

Scottish Labour failing to snatch power at May’s Holyrood election could spark the end of the Prime Minister’s leadership.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer visits Scotland with five months to save his leadership amid Scottish Labour unrest

Scottish Labour failing to snatch power at May’s Holyrood election could spark the end of the Prime Minister’s leadership.

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage addresses 'inevitable' plans to team up with Tories to win next election

Farage says he won't do a deal with Tories even though most think it is inevitable as they try and wrestle power from Labour

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4 d. ago Fresh questions about Keir Starmer's role in assisted dying bill as leaked document reveals how Labour plotted to change law while in opposition

A leaked document revealed a discussion within Labour - prior to the party winning power - about how a Private Member's Bill could be used to legalise assisted dying.

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4 d. ago Wes Streeting announces Labour will ‘end corridor care’ in NHS hospitals by 2029

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says Labour will end NHS corridor care after nurses told of being powerless as patients spent hours slowly dying on trolleys in busy A&Es

Science

1 week ago St Vincent opposition party celebrates historic election win

New Democratic party victory is crushing defeat for Unity Labour which has held power since 2001The New Democratic party (NDP) in the Caribbean country of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is celebrating a historic landslide victory taking 14 of 15 seats, according to preliminary results.The decisive vote was a crushing defeat for the Unity Labour party (ULP), which has been in power since 2001. Continue reading...

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1 week ago St Vincent prime minister seeks record sixth term in tight election

Ralph Gonsalves campaigns on strong economy in bid to retain office he has held since 2001Voters in St Vincent and the Grenadines will go to the polls on Thursday with Ralph Gonsalves seeking a record sixth consecutive term as prime minister.The elections are expected to be a tight contest between the ruling Unity Labour party, which has been in power since 2001, and the opposition New Democratic party.In the last election, ULP won nine of 15 seats, but the NDP won the popular vote. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Hotels and AirBnBs to be targeted with a new 'bed tax' as Labour gives mayors the power to impose levies on holidaying Brits and foreign tourists

Ministers are giving the go-ahead for regional mayors in England to impose the charges, heaping costs on stays for Britons as well as foreign tourists.

Society

1 week ago Labour MP's powerful speech on surviving male rape praised for breaking shame cycle

Labour MP Josh Newbury has said in a moving Commons speech that he is a survivor of male rape, with charity SurvivorsUK stressing that thousands of men face sexual violence each year

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2 w. ago CLAIRE COUTINHO: Starmer needs to rein Ed Miliband in but he's too weak

Remember when Ed Miliband promised to cut your energy bills by £300, asks CLAIRE COUTINHO. Well, since Labour came to power, bills have gone up by almost £200 - and they're going to rise again.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on falling net migration: political debate is now detached from the facts

A fixation on reducing numbers leaves no room for rational discussion of what that means for the economy and societyBritish political debate has long been dominated by public anxiety about rising levels of immigration. How might that change if the population tide were to turn? Not at all, would appear to be the answer. Net migration has in fact been falling since before Labour came to power last July, and yet there has been no end of demand for ever tighter controls and no end of government acquiescence.New figures published this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), adjusting historical data for methodological changes, show that net migration was 944,000 for the year ending March 2023 – about 40,000 higher than had previously been thought. The drop since then has also been steeper. The number for the year ending December 2024 is now thought to be 345,000 – lower than the earlier count by 86,000.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would li...

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3 w. ago Sharks circle wounded Starmer: Now Angela Rayner makes her pitch to Labour saying she has 'not gone away'

The humiliating failure of No10's pre-emptive strike on rivals last week has effectively fired the starting gun on a race to succeed Keir Starmer.

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3 w. ago Immigration courts backlog DOUBLES since Labour came to power, topping 121,000 cases

HM Courts and Tribunal Service published new data showing there are 121,010 applications awaiting a hearing in the immigration and asylum tribunal.

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3 w. ago West Lothian parents win concession on high school consultation

Welcoming the change the opposition SNP group said Labour had “caved-in” in the face of a powerful parent led campaign for a new East Calder High School.

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3 w. ago Men bear brunt of jobs bloodbath as number out of work tops one million for first time in a decade

Official figures showed the jobless rate among men climbed to 5.4 per cent in the three months to September, up from 4.2 per cent when Labour came to power last summer.

Economics