The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Exclusive: Sitting down with The Independent, the prime minister has for the first time outlined his Brexit reset plans for further European defence cooperation amid an increasingly unstable global landscape

Minister says flat-rate compensation scheme for women affected by rising state pension age would have cost taxpayer £10.5bn

Keir Starmer opens Downing Street’s door this week for guests from schoolchildren singing carols to MPs and hacks, trooping in to meet the PM over English sparkling wine. Starmer will be looking forward to a few days off. He looks and sounds tired after undertaking a punishing travel schedule to…

Tories demand answers on ‘basic facts’ about ‘crumbling’ Chagos Islands deal as Mauritius PM Dr Navin Ramgoolam has pulls the plug on agreement demanding talks are reopened

The UK does not mourn the death of Russian general Kirillov due to his involvement in deploying chemical weapons in Ukraine. Ukraine is suspected of assass...

Christine Lee has lost her legal challenge against the security service.

Igor Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in the Russian capital as he left for work.

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer is in Estonia for a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF).

The Government fears that significant action could have severe economic and political effects

Skilled overseas workers contribute 20 times more than UK-born adults, while some shortages may be due to pay and conditions, say advisers

Ex-Tory MP and M&S chairman said ‘it is quite extraordinary… you wouldn’t believe it’, but the retailer has to store thousands of pages of documents in a warehouse in the Republic of Ireland for six years after taking food across the border