The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer restores powers to ousted hereditary peers in Lords shake-up

Dozens handed life peerages in apparent concession, enabling their return to red benches

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

UK raises terror threat level to severe after two Jewish men stabbed in north London

Severe is the second-highest rung on a five-point scale and means intelligence agencies consider an attack highly likely in the next six months.

Euronews · Apr 30

Trump insists Starmer ‘has to learn to deal like the King’ in new attack on Prime Minister

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The Independent UK · Apr 30

PM vows to act against people ‘venerating the murder of Jews’ as terror threat level rises

Keir Starmer pledges crackdown on protesters chanting or displaying antisemitic slogans as terror attack is assessed to be ‘highly likely’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

Chaos within Labour has paused for now, but after the May elections the leadership contest begins in earnest

A different kind of stasis waits after the polls: a candidate gridlock where all Starmer’s potential successors are problematic in their own way, says writer Morgan Jones

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

UK PM Starmer jeered by crowd on arrival at scene of stabbing of two Jewish men

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heckled with jeers of "Jew harmer" and "shame on you" as he arrives in north London where two Jewish men were stabbed the day before. The attack, which the police have labelled a "terrorist incident", comes after a series of attacks on Jewish sites…

Euronews · Apr 30

Golders Green terror attack suspect Essa Suleiman was referred to government’s counterterror programme

Former translator came to Britain legally from Somalia as a child and has a history of ‘serious violence and mental health issues’

The Independent UK · Apr 30

Golders Green terror attack suspect named – reports

Police tasered and arrested a 45-year-old man after the double stabbing.

Evening Standard · Apr 30

Shoplifting convictions and sentencings highest for nearly a decade

Analysis by the Press Association shows the age of people convicted of shoplifting has shifted in recent years towards older groups.

Evening Standard · Apr 30

Starmer’s sister-in-law describes arson attack on family home

Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and two others are accused of plotting to set light to a car and two houses linked to the Prime Minister.

Evening Standard · Apr 30