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‘We are backing ourselves’: Labour aims to turn tide on Tories in Essex

Party could make historic inroads in places such as Southend but many of the races look very tight

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2024

Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer will win on an anti-Tory vote, not a pro-Labour one

Jeremy Corbyn tells the Standard Keir Starmer should admit he helped write his manifestos, he still talks to Angela Rayner, and what he wishes he’d done differently as Labour leader

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2024

Can the next foreign secretary offer hope for Jagtar Singh Johal's release?

DESPITE allegations of mistreatment, and a long-running campaign championed by the SNP’s Martin Docherty-Hughes, the fate of Jagtar Singh Johal…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 18, 2024

Angela Rayner said she wants to scrap nuclear weapons hours after Starmer said shadow cabinet backs him

Angela Rayner and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy voted against renewing the Trident nuclear deterrent in 2016

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2024

Rayner hasn’t ‘changed mind’ on nuclear weapons but backs Labour policy

Deputy leader has voted against renewing Trident but says she supports ‘triple lock’ commitment to programme in near term

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2024

Keir Starmer says ready to press the nuclear button to protect UK

Labour leader insists his team is united on supporting Trident after some frontbenchers voted against its renewal in 2016

Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024

For Labour, the Gaza crisis is a foreign policy tightrope in waiting

Starmer’s belief in international law and the rise of Labour Friends of Israel offer clues to potential stance on Palestinian statehood

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024

Keir Starmer promises to work with Donald Trump if both men are elected

The Labour leader described Mr Trump’s guilty verdict as an ‘unprecedented situation’, but said he will ‘work with whoever is elected president’

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

EU keen to deepen ties with a Labour PM but will not offer radical concessions

UK relationship ‘isn’t taking up as much of our mental space as it was a few years ago’, says EU diplomat

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2024

Labour expected to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as 550 parliamentarians demand action

Ahead of the dissolution of Parliament 550 MPs and peers from across parties have demanded a dramatic change in foreign policy with Iran

The Independent UK · May 27, 2024