6 h. ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The PM is big on bravado but his troops plan won't deter Putin's aggression

Prime Minister Keir Starmer can't be trusted to pursue such a policy. He flails cluelessly when confronted with military issues, mixing bravado with unrealistic expectations.

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37 h. ago Keir Starmer condemns killing of Iranian protesters and calls for ‘restraint’

The Prime Minister issued a joint statement with the leaders of France and Germany.

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42 h. ago No 10 defends military funding amid warnings of £28bn black hole

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton reportedly told the Prime Minister last year about a £28 billion shortfall between now and 2030.

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43 h. ago No 10: Grok changes ‘insulting’ and make deepfake creation a ‘premium service’

The changes to Grok come after regulator Ofcom said it made ‘urgent contact’ with X.

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68 h. ago Keir Starmer 'should be ashamed' says sister of hunger striker on brink of death

The sister of Kamran Ahmed, the hunger striker for Palestine who has reached 59 days without food, has said Prime Minister Keir Starmer "should be ashamed" at the treatment of the protestors

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3 d. ago MPs would get vote on troop deployment to Ukraine, says Keir Starmer

UK and France ready to send peacekeeping troops, PM tells House of CommonsUK politics live – latest updatesMPs will have a debate and vote before any UK troops are deployed on peacekeeping duties in Ukraine, Keir Starmer has announced at prime minister’s questions.Speaking after Britain and France said they would be willing to send troops if there was a peace deal, following discussions at a wider summit in Paris, Starmer was pressed by Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, as to why he was not making a full Commons statement. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago UK’s peacekeeping force in Ukraine needs ‘serious numbers’ to face down Russia, former Nato chief warns

Sir Richard Shirreff said a ‘government without a sword is useless’ as he hit out at Britain’s defence spending despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s pledge to increase it to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035

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3 d. ago Watch live: Starmer faces claims of ‘Brexit betrayal’ in first PMQs of 2026

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch in the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the year on Wednesday (7 January).

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4 d. ago Russia brand Keir Starmer 'illiterate and a fool' over plan for British troops in Ukraine

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been called "a fool" by a senior Russian figure after he and French President revealed plans for troops in Ukraine after the peace deal

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4 d. ago Starmer to face first PMQs of 2026 after pledging boots on the ground in Ukraine

The Prime Minister said British forces would be placed in ‘military hubs’ in Ukraine as part of peacekeeping efforts once the war is over.

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4 d. ago British troops on the ground in Ukraine if peace reached, Number 10 says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said "military hubs" will be set up across Ukraine once a peace deal has been reached

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4 d. ago British troops will be sent to Ukraine if peace deal with Russia is agreed

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said “military hubs” will be set up across Ukraine once a peace deal has been reached after a meeting of western allies in Paris

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4 d. ago Manchester Arena attack families demand MI5 held accountable in 'Hillsborough Law'

Families of those who lost their lives in the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer demanding action over MI5 as part of a new law designed to prevent cover-ups

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4 d. ago Starmer tells Cabinet of ‘fight of our political lives’ in general election clash with Farage’s Reform UK

He stressed to his senior ministers that Labour would be judged on whether it had tackled the cost-of-living problems faced by many households

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4 d. ago Labour drops behind Tories for first time since election ahead of make

Pressure on prime minister Keir Starmer as he trails Nigel Farage’s and Kemi Badnoch’s parties in key poll just months before elections in Scotland, Wales and English councils

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4 d. ago Starmer plea for Cabinet ministers to work as a 'team' as he fights to remain Prime Minister

He told his senior ministers that Labour would be judged on whether it had tackled the cost-of-living problems faced by many households

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4 d. ago Starmer says UK ‘turning the corner’ at first Cabinet meeting of 2026

Labour faces a difficult set of elections in May in English local authorities and the Scottish and Welsh parliaments.

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4 d. ago Huge blow for Prime Minister Keir Starmer as Chagos Islands deal hammered by Lords

Controversial deal suffers series of defeats at the hands of peers

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5 d. ago Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci

The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as suchThere is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of the US/Israel attack on Iran, Europeans now hesitate to condemn the US’s audacious military operation to bring about regime change in Venezuela. With few notable exceptions – such as Spain, the Netherlands and Norway – most European leaders have fudged their response. Spain, in fact, has acted without its EU partners, condemning the US attack alongside a group of Latin American countries. European governments seem unable to utter in the same breath that, although Nicolás Maduro was an illegitimate dictator, the US attack to topple him is a gross violation of international law.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at least...

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5 d. ago Starmer's price freezes will do little to ease the cost of living crunch, warns ALEX BRUMMER

The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is pledging an assault on the cost of living as the centrepiece of his plan to stay in office.

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