53 m. ago UK urged to stop Northern Ireland being ‘caught in crossfire’ of US

Concerns were raised in the Commons about the ‘particularly complex’ situation for Northern Ireland even if the UK avoids tariffs.

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72 m. ago Keir Starmer's dire personal rating boosted by Ukraine leadership as Brits give damning verdict on Donald Trump

The Prime Minister is now more popular than Reform's Nigel Farage for the first time since September, according to YouGov.

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2 h. ago Russia's 'waiting to fertilise soil with British blood again' in chilling WW3 warning

Russian officials have spoken out and said they are ready too face any troops sent to Ukraine posed as 'peacekeepers' as Moscow oppose the new measures suggested by Keir Starmer

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3 h. ago Martin promises Irish help as Starmer seeks trade reset with EU

Sir Keir Starmer and Micheal Martin are leading talks at a major UK-Ireland summit in Liverpool.

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3 h. ago Russia sends chilling WW3 warning to UK vowing to 'fertilise soil with British blood'

A leading pro-Putin politician has mocked Sir Keir Starmer for seeking to be a “cool British prime minister” by considering sending troops to Ukraine as World War 3 tensions rise

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5 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like two shipwreck survivors

QUENTIN LETTS: Water has stopped lapping against the bows. Westminster is becalmed. Thanks to Trump no one knows what to think, what to say, whom to attack.

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8 h. ago World is a dangerous place but we are in safer hands with Keir Starmer

The Labour leader finds himself having to make some crucial decisions in uncertain times, says Record View.

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10 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer's secrecy over the Southport killings 'could have put the entire murder trial at risk', terror watchdog warns

Jonathan Hall KC criticised authorities for failing to 'spell out basic and sober facts' about the teenager after he murdered three young girls at a dance class last year.

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11 h. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Starmer might enjoy playing the global statesman but we're all stuck in a dejected, unhappy Britain

With one bound he was free! That is what Sir Keir Starmer 's admirers are saying about his sudden transformation into a globe-trotting international statesman.

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14 h. ago UK and Ireland to announce closer collaboration on energy at summit

Officials hope the new deal will speed up investments and developments in infrastructure.

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15 h. ago Prime Minister and Taoiseach pledge to work together ahead of inaugural summit

Sir Keir Starmer and Micheal Martin spoke at a reception at the Museum of Liverpool on Wednesday evening.

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16 h. ago Taoiseach disagrees with O’Neill over Ukraine missiles order comments

Micheal Martin said he was a man of peace but that Ukraine has a right to defend itself.

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16 h. ago UK plans joint bid to host 2035 Women’s World Cup in ‘monumental moment’

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland involvedKeir Starmer promises ‘government’s full support’The home nations are to join together in a bid to host the Women’s World Cup in 2035, a move which, if successful, would mark a “monumental moment in our nation’s sporting history”, according to Keir Starmer, the prime minister.A formal expression of interest in staging the tournament, which could be comprised of as many as 48 teams, is to be submitted to Fifa this month on behalf of the football associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the governing bodies have confirmed. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Labour MPs warn aid budget cuts could allow greater role for Russia and China

Concerns were raised during a Commons debate despite a welcome for the move to increase defence spending.

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18 h. ago Europe holds breath as Keir Starmer insists Trump is still reliable despite Ukraine betrayal

Donald Trump has paused intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine in a move Keir Starmer heard will 'mean more brave Ukrainians will die'

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20 h. ago Keir Starmer's aid cut will be 'music to the ears of terrorists' claim as anger grows

Former Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the decision to cut international aid by £6billion a year would be a 'clarion call to terrorists' as Keir Starmer faces a growing backlash

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20 h. ago Labour MP says Starmer ‘taking the axe’ to UK’s aid budget to fund defence

Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion also said a ‘scandalously large amount of ODA’ had been spent ‘on domestic refugee costs’.

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20 h. ago Failure to give basic facts on Southport killer led to ‘dangerous fictions’

Terror watchdog Jonathan Hall KC said the disinformation could have been ‘far more’ prejudicial to Axel Rudakubana’s trial than the true facts.

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20 h. ago Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Lib Dems mock Badenoch for defending him – UK politics live

Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’In response to a question about intelligence cooperation with the US, Sir David Manning, a former ambassador to Washington, said he thought this would become “more difficult” because there was a problem of trust. He explained:If you have some of Trump’s appointees in these key jobs who have very strange track records, and have said very strange things about Nato allies, the Nato alliance and so on, and you have people in the administration who seem to be, let’s say, looking for ways of appeasing Russia, then you have a problem on the intelligence front, because these are not the values that we have. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Arms manufacturer to open third facility in Northern Ireland

Thales, a French-owned arms company, already runs a factory in east Belfast and test facility in Co Down.

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