3 h. ago Watch out Keir! The 'pasta plotters' are back as renegade Labour MP gathers group in Italian restaurant to 'discuss Starmer's leadership woes'

Louise Haigh was eating in Giovanni's, a long-established family Italian restaurant in London, where Rishi Sunak 's political enemies in the Tory party used to meet to plot their rebellions.

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1 week ago Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop ReformWhat hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task.Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising. The 11% vote share at the C...

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2 w. ago DAN HODGES: It's only a matter of when, not if, the Prime Minister is removed by his backbenchers

Keir Starmer 's defeat in Labour's deputy leadership contest is a calamity for him. The only question now is whether his MPs move against him before or after next year's local elections.

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2 w. ago Streeting’s historic comparison leads to speculation over Starmer’s future as PM

The health secretary compared defeat last week in the Caerphilly by-election to the one in Hartlepool which almost forced Starmer to quit

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2 w. ago Labour not ‘bold enough’ says Powell as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell’s victory in the deputy leadership contest could add to Sir Keir Starmer’s headaches at the end of a bruising week.

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2 w. ago DAN HODGES: Lucy Powell's Deputy Leadership victory sounds the death knell for Starmer. I know her well, and this is what she has planned for Labour and the country

Now it is only a matter of when, not if, he is removed as Prime Minister. And that's good news for Labour, and good news for Britain.

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2 w. ago Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race to add to Starmer’s headaches

The Manchester Central MP was sacked from the Government by Sir Keir Starmer and will now be a prominent voice on the back benches.

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2 w. ago Starmer's leadership under fire after voters humiliate Labour in safe seat it held for 100 years

The Prime Minister's leadership was called into question after the disastrous result in Caerphilly, South Wales.

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2 w. ago Labour humiliated — but could tactical voting save it from wipeouts?

Crushing defeat in Wales raises questions over Starmer’s leadership but result shows resistance to Reform

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2 w. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling on child grooming gang inquiry

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (22 October).

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2 w. ago We must turn Labour around, deputy leadership frontrunner warns Starmer as she hits out at ‘mistakes’

Exclusive: Frontrunner for deputy leadership takes aim at PM over ‘mis-steps and mistakes’, saying she was sacked for opposing cuts and that the party must reconnect with lost voters - but not by copying Reform

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2 w. ago Labour deputy leadership contest may only cause more trouble for Starmer

Victory for Lucy Powell or Bridget Phillipson, the rivals at the centre of the race, could be reckoning for the party When Lucy Powell got a phone call from a withheld number in her constituency office in Manchester on the day Angela Rayner resigned, Powell told her staff: “This is me getting the sack.” Never would the former Commons leader have believed less than two months later that she might be on the brink of returning as Labour’s deputy leader.Her rival, Bridget Phillipson, also never expected to be in this position. Hurt by some of the internal briefing against her position as education secretary, she debated for more than a day whether to join the race at all. Being cast as the favoured candidate has not been comfortable. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Watch in full: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling over China spy case

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch faced off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (15 October).

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3 w. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling over China spy case

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (15 October).

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3 w. ago GB News chaos as Donald Trump embarrasses Keir Starmer in 'painful to watch' moment

Donald Trump invited Sir Keir Starmer onto the stage during his speech at the Gaza peace summit but viewers were left cringing by the Prime Minister's reaction.

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