The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Russia is a member of the G20, and minister of foreign affairs Sergei Lavrov has been at this week’s summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Farmers flocked to Whitehall to protest against changes to inheritance tax and other measures in last month’s Budget.

Social media footage promising takedowns of Sir Keir Starmer rely on out of context interviews from years ago.

Minister says law change is ‘right thing to do’ while Keir Starmer gives strongest hint yet that he will vote for bill

The Foreign Secretary said the UK Government’s approach is ‘one American president at a time’.

A day like today is not a day for false dichotomies, we can leave those at home. But governments generally face a simple choice when it comes to raising money, between broad-based taxes (e.g. income tax) or granular (e.g. inheritance tax threshold changes for farmers). Both have their advantages and disadvantages, as is being…

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted it was right to have ‘pragmatic’ engagement with China’s Xi Jinping.

The Government is neutral on the issue and MPs will have a free vote when the Bill is debated next week.

The Kremlin updated its weapons doctrine so that any large conventional attack on Moscow could meet the criteria for a nuclear response.

It is the post-Budget battle the Government did not necessarily anticipate: Labour versus the farmers. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) held a mass lobby of MPs this morning, calling on their representatives to oppose the imposition of inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. That is not all.…

For Londoners whose only contact with the countryside is the Diddlysquat range of Jeremy Clarkson products in the Amazon grocery store the arrival of lots of tractors in Whitehall today driven by actual farmers must be alarming. I say to them: do not worry — they come in peace; they…