The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

The 45-year-old has the perfect CV for the role, with experience at the Bank of England and in private finance – but how has her background shaped her tough stance on public finances?

British Horseracing Authority says it has been preparing for a change of government for many months

Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts advise

Should Sir Keir Starmer emerge as prime minister on Friday morning, he can consider it a job remarkably well done. In the nearly five years since securing the Labour leadership, Sir Keir has transformed the party from a parliamentary rump under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over…

Britons now need to earn at least £29,000 a year to sponsor a loved one to come and live in the UK from abroad

Most of the UK parties want to reduce immigration levels

Conservative attacks on Labour’s approach to the economy appear to have failed with Sir Keir Starmer’s party leading the Tories by 13 points in the key electoral battleground of the economy.

Artwork holding dummies of migrants interpreted by some as commentary on continuing loss of life in Channel

PM says he ‘loves this party dearly’ and would always put himself at the service of it’

Reset with Europe is priority for man who is on course to be foreign secretary, amid two wars and crisis in France