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The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

The charts that show just how worried Labour should be about the polls

Whether on leader favourability or on key policy areas, Labour is losing ground on almost every metric

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage to back scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payment

Nigel Farage, who is attempting to regain control of the narrative after taking a week of holiday while the Commons was sitting, will pile further pressure on the PM over benefits cuts

The Independent UK

Farage ‘backs scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payments’

His Reform UK party is riding high in the opinion polls.

Evening Standard

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Inside Labour plot to oust Keir Starmer as PM is given 12 months to turn things around

SPECIAL REPORT: This week’s dramatic winter fuel U-turn has not been enough to stop speculation about the future of Starmer as leader, as political editor David Maddox found out

The Independent UK

Voices: Angela Rayner is the Gordon Brown of this government

COMMENT: The deputy prime minister is serious about her ambition but, like Brown, she will have to wait, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Voices: Starmer is now in the crosshairs of the Kremlin

COMMENT: The prime minister’s activities on the world stage have made him of great interest to Moscow, says Katia Glod, who shows how Russian media activity about him soars every time he sticks his head above the parapet

The Independent UK

Officials probe possible Russian link to Starmer arson attacks in north London

Senior Whitehall figures want to know whether Moscow could have recruited three Ukrainian-born men

Evening Standard

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Some Tories privately support PM’s stance on Israel and Gaza, Conservative says

Mark Pritchard, MP for the Wrekin, said he believed Sir Keir Starmer was on the ‘right side of history’.

Evening Standard

Starmer faces major revolt over benefit cuts as frontbenchers ‘poised to quit’ over reforms

A rebellion on this scale would be a significant knock to the prime minister’s authority and represent wider disquiet about the direction of the government

The Independent UK

Voices: After the winter fuel decision, Labour is now openly at war with itself

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Far from defusing the growing unrest within his party, the prime minister’s U-turn has emboldened backbenchers to demand even more sweeteners, says Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

Eddie Marsan: ‘You are never gonna satisfy racists – it’s their hobby, they’re addicted to it’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The prolific actor plays an American forensic expert in the BBC’s new drama ‘The Bombing of Pan Am 103’. Eddie Marsan talks to Hannah Ewens about how he escaped typecasting, where Keir Starmer is failing, how to deal with racists, and his future as a director

The Independent UK

Ex-Civil Service chief Simon Case warns of near future ‘dominated’ by conflict

Sir Simon Case, who stood down as Cabinet secretary in December, made the warning in his first major interview since leaving the job.

Evening Standard

Jeremy Corbyn criticises Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech at festival

Speaking at the Wide Awake Festival, Mr Corbyn described the Prime Minister’s remarks as ‘nonsense’.

Evening Standard

Badenoch urges Prime Minister to visit fishermen affected by EU trade deal

The Conservative leader visited Bridlington in East Yorkshire on Friday and met fishermen from the town.

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The Independent UK

Israel is steadily destroying trust with much of the West

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu has no plan for peace and security. It is he who should be ashamed of himself – not Keir Starmer, Mark Carney or Emmanuel Macron

The National (Scotland)

Labour think tank rakes in over £1m from donors linked to private healthcare

AN influential Labour think tank has raked in over £1 million from donors linked to private healthcare since last July’s General Election ...

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Reform Party Snatches Labour Seat and Sparks Outrage Over Flag Ban and New Agenda in Kent

The Guardian - UK

Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer

Israeli leader’s antisemitism claim labelled defamatory as he is warned against pursuing a war without end

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Evening Standard

‘Key issues’ including trade discussed in talks between Starmer and Swinney

The Prime Minister met the Scottish First Minister and others at the Council of Nations in London on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship

Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney discusses 'need to end conflict' in Gaza with Keir Starmer

FIRST Minister John Swinney discussed the “need to end conflict” in Gaza and allow humanitarian assistance during a meeting with Keir Starmer.

The Independent UK

Voices: I’ve spent decades inside prisons – here’s how I’ll fix them for good

COMMENT: In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since the Victorian era

The Independent UK

Hundreds of British students face expulsion from Harvard as ‘vindictive’ Trump bans overseas recruitment

Exclusive: Labour prime minister Keir Starmer and ambassador Peter Mandelson told to warn US president not to make UK students ‘victims’ of his politics

The Independent UK

Trump takes aim at Starmer over net zero strategy

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Euronews

Netanyahu accuses Macron, Starmer and Carney of siding with Hamas after Gaza operation criticism

Earlier this week, the three leaders issued a joint statement condemning what they said was Israel's "egregious" military actions in Gaza and warning that they would take "concrete actions" if Netanyahu didn’t change course.

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