Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Last candidate to chair grooming gangs inquiry withdraws over ‘lack of trust’

Jim Gamble cites ‘vested interests’ and ‘political opportunism’, as Keir Starmer brings in Louise Casey as adviser

The Guardian - UK

Attacks on UK cabinet secretary ‘stink of political cowardice’, union leader says

Civil service union head decries anonymous criticism as insiders continue to bemoan Chris Wormald’s appointment

The Guardian - UK

Rayner’s return gives a lift to Labour’s gloomy backbenchers

Former deputy PM’s resignation statement offered a moment to reflect on what the party had lost – and might have again

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The prime minister must take charge of the grooming gangs inquiry

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Neither removing Jess Phillips as safeguarding minister nor appointing Louise Casey to an ill-defined advisory role is likely, on its own, to restore much confidence. For the sake of the hundreds of sexual abuse victims, it is imperative that the PM now finds the right person…

The Independent UK

UK Sanctions Balkans Gangs As Irregular Migrant Numbers Rise

Britain on Wednesday sanctioned Balkans-based gangs and financiers helping facilitate small boat crossings, as migrant arrivals this year via the Channel were set to surpass the 2024 totals.

International Business Times

Starmer calls Western Balkans Europe’s ‘crucible’ as he kicks off summit

The Prime Minister is hosting leaders from Western Balkan nations as the UK seeks to agree further measures on deterring illegal migrants.

Evening Standard

MPs ‘pushing hard’ to launch inquiry into Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence

Keir Starmer indicates openness to MPs questioning Andrew in person about home he has lived in for more than 20 years without paying rent

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Government will take SNP majority seriously, says Alexander

The SNP has set the bar for a new referendum on independence at winning a majority of seats next year.

Evening Standard

Cabinet secretary Wormald ‘continues to have PM’s support’ says No 10

Downing Street was responding to speculation the country’s top civil servant could be moved from his role within months.

Evening Standard

PM says he supports ‘proper scrutiny’ of all royal properties, amid Andrew row

Prince Andrew pays a peppercorn rent to live in the 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor.

Evening Standard

PM calls for school trust to ‘reconsider’ providing ramp for young girl

Millie Blair was diagnosed with osteosarcoma on her 11th birthday last year.

Evening Standard

Asylum seeker sent back to France under Starmer’s flagship ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to Britain in small boat

The man is being held at an immigration detention centre as the Home Office attempts to speed up the case for his removal

The Independent UK

Man deported to France under returns deal re-enters UK on small boat

It comes as the number of migrant arrivals in small boats in the UK has surpassed the total for the whole of 2024.

The Independent UK

Migrant deported to France under 'one in one out' deal RETURNS to UK on small boat

Migrant claims he was a victim of modern slavery at the hands of smugglers in northern France

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Farage appears in Commons gallery as ‘mere spectator’ at PMQs

The Reform UK leader complained he had ‘no right of reply’ at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer backs call for Prince Andrew to be hauled in front of MPs to give evidence

When the prime minister was asked whether Prince Andrew should give evidence to a select committee inquiry, he said: ‘I certainly support that’

Evening Standard

Grooming gang inquiry chaos deepens as ex-police chief in running to chair it withdraws from process

Jim Gamble, a former senior police officer, was one of two prospective candidates to lead the probe but is no longer seeking the position

The Independent UK

Baroness Casey hauled in to save grooming gangs inquiry after four survivors quit, Starmer announces at PMQs

The PM says Baroness Casey ‘will now support the work of the inquiry and it will get to the truth’

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

PM insists ‘injustice will have no place to hide’ in grooming gangs inquiry

Sir Keir Starmer responded to criticism at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Downing Street’s top civil servant ‘on brink of being ousted’

The latest speculation around Chris Wormald’s position comes after the departure of a string of senior government officials over the last year

The Independent UK

Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling on child grooming gang inquiry

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (22 October).

The Guardian - UK

Scotland demands £24.5m from Westminster for Trump and Vance visits

Treasury says trips were private while Scottish ministers point out US president met Keir Starmer and it had to stump up for extra policing

Evening Standard

London politics LIVE: Keir Starmer grilled at PMQs on grooming gangs inquiry resignations

Sir Keir Starmer faced Prime Minister’s Questions amid a row over the Government's handling of the national grooming gangs inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Tory plans to deport some people who are legally in UK are ‘grotesque’, says Labour – as it happened

Labour chair says that Tory proposals to revoke indefinite leave to remain in some cases will ‘tear families apart’

The Guardian - UK

The politics of despair have engulfed Britain. But Zack Polanski is offering a way out

The leader of the Greens wants to focus on battles that unite – such as taxing wealth – without yielding an inch on minority rights, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

1 … 295 296 297 298

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the European Parliament

863 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.