The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Minister rejects Blair’s triple lock warning as ex-PM calls for ‘coherent plan’

Dan Tomlinson said ‘things have moved on’ since the ex-Labour leader was in No 10.

Evening Standard · May 27

Former minister Jess Phillips threatened to resign multiple times over Mandelson concerns

Lord Mandelson was sacked from the role in September last year over his friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein

The Independent UK · May 27

Molly Russell’s bereaved father demands government makes internet ‘as safe as possible’

14-year-old daughter Molly took her own life in 2017 after viewing harmful content online

The Independent UK · May 27

Molly Russell would be fighting to make online world safe, bereaved father says

The Government’s consultation on what action it should take to tackle social media harms, titled Growing Up In The Online World, has closed.

Evening Standard · May 27

'Happening at Scale': UK Doctors Compare Social Media Dangers to Smoking and Seatbelt Failures

UK medical leaders warn of social media's growing risks to children, urging stricter regulations. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges compares the issue to historic public health campaigns.

International Business Times UK · May 27

UK and Poland to sign defence treaty amid Russian threats

The treaty aims to safeguard British borders, combat organised crime and strengthen collective defences

The Independent UK · May 26

Voices: If Labour wants to get back on track, it must listen to Tony Blair

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: In an extraordinary intervention, the most successful leader in the party’s history says it is only by embracing the ‘radical centre’ that either the party or the country can hope to hold off the threats coming down the tracks – Labour must focus on the ‘what’…

The Independent UK · May 26

Blair: Labour is playing with fire over UK’s future – and is too weak to rejoin EU

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister issues a scathing indictment of Starmer’s government – and warns that the UK cannot even discuss rejoining the EU until it regains its lost strength

The Independent UK · May 26

Tony Blair’s essay on Labour failings gets full marks for being unhelpful

Intervention by former PM feels almost designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party

The Guardian - UK · May 26

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

The Guardian - UK · May 26