Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privately

The Guardian - UK

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Education secretary says voters feel let down but do not want Labour to ‘spend more time talking amongst ourselves’

The Guardian - UK

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

Focus group sceptical that replacing Keir Starmer would improve party’s fortunes, with some drawn to Reform or the Greens

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Budget to include extra $2bn for infrastructure – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future

With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP says she will trigger leadership contest by Monday if cabinet does not launch challenge – as it happened

Catherine West says she will try to get the necessary signatures herself to trigger a leadership contest

The Guardian - UK

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

Starmer faces prospect of challenge as ex-minister says she will try to trigger race if no one in cabinet comes forward

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party after 100 years

Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapse

The Guardian - UK

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls

The Guardian - UK

Trump-Xi Beijing Summit To Focus On Iran Conflict, Trade Tensions

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing later next week, but the focus of the summit is likely to remain on the Iran war.

International Business Times

British leader Keir Starmer under pressure after heavy election losses

Labour party loses more than 1,400 English council seats and crashes out in Welsh and Scottish parliament votes

The Guardian - UK

The SNP may have won again but Scottish politics has been upended

Public frustration gave the SNP a muted victory, while Labour tied with Reform for second and the Greens claimed a ‘seismic’ result

The Guardian - UK

Most Labour members think Starmer cannot revive party fortunes, poll finds

Exclusive: Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is preferred choice of new leader for 42% of those surveyed

The Guardian - UK

John Swinney urges Starmer to show Scotland ‘greater respect’ after SNP victory

Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, concedes his party was comprehensively beaten in election as count puts his party on 17 seats, a tie with Reform

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers local election losses

Labour lost hundreds of councillors and eight local authorities across England in early results.

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: What the local election results tell us so far

In today’s newsletter: gains for Reform and losses for Labour in early results, but experts say overall picture underlines ‘the fracturing of British politics’

The Independent UK

Labour MP calls for Starmer to step down after wife loses council seat to Reform

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Partial results show losses for Starmer’s Labour and wins for Reform UK in local elections

Partial results from local elections in England showed large losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party and gains for the hard-right party Reform U.K. The votes are being widely seen as an unofficial referendum on Starmer, elected less than two years ago

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Potholes – that’s what voters care about. But you wouldn’t know it from the local elections coverage

As I bounced dangerously around a Sussex road, I was reminded of the parlous state of our highways – and the serious neglect of local issues, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham withdraws from speech as Labour leadership speculation grows

IN FULL

The Independent UK

Farage hails ‘historic shift in British politics’ as Reform makes sweeping local election gains

The Reform leader compared the substantial gains to clearing Becher’s Brook, a famously difficult jump in the Grand National

Evening Standard

Farage says Reform on course for general election win after early local gains

Labour was haemorrhaging council seats in local elections across England in bleak results for Sir Keir Starmer.

Evening Standard

Local elections 2026: All the London results so far

Some 1,817 London council seats are up for grabs with mayoral races in Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets

Evening Standard

Local elections 2026: What are the results in my area?

Use our live interactive map to find out the result of the election in your area

The Guardian - UK

Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains

Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch and Tamworth

1 … 101 102 103 104

People

Andrew MountbattenWindsor

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.