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Labour’s bonfire of planning regulations will stir up the shires and let down those most in need – but the construction lobby will be happy, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Last week the UK’s new Labour government made a bold decision. The new minister for local government, Angela Rayner, announced that the government would withdraw its support for a new coal mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which had been approved two years ago by the then Conservative government.

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer held a news conference during the European Political Community (EPC) summit on Thursday (18 July).

Among the loud political debate over the King’s Speech, the continuing drama from the US and the relationship setting at the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire today, there will be few column inches given to the Conservatives this week. Or next. Even the week after. Many reading…

UK ministers hoping to use EPC summit to explore possibility of future talks with EU on migration and trade

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer held bilateral meetings with more than 40 European leaders during a major summit in Oxfordshire on Thursday, 18 July.

Ukrainian president condemns Hungarian prime minister’s unilateral ‘peace mission’ to Moscow

A Nato summit in Washington in week one, a meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) on home soil in week two — Sir Keir Starmer is enjoying a fast start on the international stage.

Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday hailed an opportunity to strengthern relations between the UK and France on key issues such as defence, security and cross-Channel migration. Meeting at a summit for the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace near Oxford in the…

Sir Keir Starmer said he intends to ‘reset our relationship with Europe’

The Labour leader was photographed greeting Edi Rama at the entrance to the grand Oxfordshire estate