5 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Harman claims ‘there is a way back’ for Rayner after resignation in tax scandal

Keir Starmer’s major cabinet reshuffle saw a dozen cabinet positions change, including the foreign minister and home secretary

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5 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Harman says ‘there is a way back’ for Rayner after resignation in tax scandal

Keir Starmer’s major cabinet reshuffle saw a dozen cabinet positions change, including the foreign minister and home secretary

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9 h. ago Starmer launches sweeping cabinet reshuffle after Rayner resigns in tax scandal

Yvette Cooper moves to Foreign Office while David Lammy becomes deputy PM and Shabana Mahmood home secretary

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer reshuffles Cabinet after Angela Rayner quits over tax error

Keir Starmer promoted Shabana Mahmood to Home Secretary as he shuffled his pack, making David Lammy deputy PM and moving Yvette Cooper to head the Foreign Office

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10 h. ago Douglas Alexander appointed new Scottish Secretary by Keir Starmer following major Cabinet reshuffle

The Labour veteran has taken charge of the Scotland Office and will be tasked with helping take the fight to the SNP ahead of next year's Holyrood election.

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11 h. ago Yvette Cooper axed as Home Secretary in panicking Starmer's Cabinet bloodbath after Angela Rayner quit: David Lammy is moved from Foreign Secretary to Deputy PM

Keir Starmer is moving Yvette Cooper from the Home Office in an apparent admission that borders policy needs an overhaul, after a torrid summer of migration protests.

Society

12 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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12 h. ago Yvette Cooper announced as Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary replacement confirmed

Yvette Cooper had served as Home Secretary since July 2024

Society

13 h. ago Ian Murray sacked as Scottish Secretary as Keir Starmer carries out emergency Cabinet reshuffle

Murray, who was Labour's sole surviving Scottish MP after the 2015 and 2019 general elections, has lost his Cabinet position.

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17 h. ago UK politics as it happened: Cooper becomes foreign secretary in cabinet overhaul after Rayner exit

Sir Keir Starmer conducts sweeping reshuffle after his deputy resigns following breach of ministerial code

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28 h. ago RFK Jr becomes an unlikely great uniter as Democrats and Republicans join forces to pounce on his pseudoscience

Republicans, including leadership, mounted a show of force against a Trump Cabinet secretary. But he still seemed to brush it off, writes John Bowden

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46 h. ago While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere | Rafael Behr

Far from No 10, Nigel Farage has been amassing power in the sprawling, networked space where 21st-century politics happensSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWith a buzz of activity in parliament and mandatory back-to-school metaphors, a new political season opens in Westminster, but is that where politics really happens? Yes, in terms of people making policy and law in buildings that are world-famous for that purpose, the SW1 postcode is where it is at.But the heart of the machine beats with a weak pulse. The UK state is heavily centralised by the standards of most democracies, yet the people at the centre don’t feel powerful. Ministers can’t enforce bin collections in remote areas or call a halt to Middle East wars but they are made to feel answerable for all that is ill in the world, from hyperlocal to geopolitical.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist ...

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3 d. ago Cabinet Secretary backs call for major shift in venue accessibility

Scotland’s Culture Secretary Angus Robertson has backed Sight Scotland’s Accessible Venues Campaign in its mission to ensure every theatre, concert hall and cultural venue in Scotland is truly accessible for people with vision impairment.

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1 week ago Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues

‘Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,’ Trump tells education secretary in cabinet meetingDonald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration “wants nothing less than $500m from Harvard” as a condition for restoring billions of dollars in federal funding to the Ivy League university.“Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,” Trump told his education secretary, Linda McMahon, in a cabinet meeting. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Second Brexit referendum won’t happen ‘in my lifetime’, Neil Kinnock says

The ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who served as Vice-President of the European Commission between 1999 to 2004, warned Brexit had 'inflicted such harm' on Britain

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4 w. ago Wealthier areas set to pay more council tax under new plans: Will you be affected?

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is mulling an overhaul of the council tax system to allocate more money to deprived areas.

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