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The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Olly Robbins on longlist of 10 vying for UK civil service top job

Exclusive: former Brexit negotiator seen as probable favourite to take over from Simon Case as cabinet secretary

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray’s final departure marks the moment that the Starmer project gets serious

The prime minister has finally grasped that Downing Street must control the narrative, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Council tax bills could rise by 5% after Labour keeps cap in place

Rise would be almost three times above current levels of inflation and add £100 to average family’s bills

The Guardian - UK

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Minister slaps down civil servants asking for four-day week: ‘This is not the 1970s’

The arrangement would more than halve staff turnover and free up money to hire an extra 2,345 workers, officials say

The Independent UK

Four-day week could save Government £21m a year, civil servants say

The arrangement would more than halve staff turnover and free up money to hire an extra 2,345 workers, officials say.

Evening Standard

What UK’s climate leadership could look like at Cop29

Analysis: To fill the vaccum of climate leadership at Cop29, the UK needs to take on one of the thorniest issues in UN negotiations

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch is her own worst enemy … and a gift for Keir Starmer and Labour

PMQs takes detailed preparation, timing and a razor-sharp mind – none of which the leader of the opposition has yet demonstrated

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer signs new defence deal with EU ally in latest step in Brexit reset

Europe braced for impact of Donald Trump presidency on security after he picks Fox presenter Pete Hegseth, who has argued the US is spending too much on Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as defence secretary

The Independent UK

UK and Romania sign defence treaty aimed at strengthening support for Ukraine

On Tuesday afternoon, Sir Keir Starmer hosted Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu in Downing Street.

Evening Standard

Council tax increase expected as Tories claim ‘black hole’ in Labour’s plans

Sir Keir Starmer’s press secretary confirmed the threshold for council tax increases will remain at 5%.

Evening Standard

Starmer jokes that Farage could be part of US immigration statistics

The Prime Minister was responding to the Reform UK leader at PMQs on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Starmer resists pressure to describe war in Gaza as ‘genocide’

The Prime Minister was asked in the Commons for his definition of the word.

The Independent UK

DUP MP asks Starmer to help get Northern Irish toddler returned from Lebanon

David Nahle’s father has ignored a High Court order telling him to return the three-year-old to his mother, Catherine Flanagan.

Evening Standard

PMQs sketch: Welcome back Nigel Farage, MP for Trumpland

Reform UK leader mocked as he tells Sir Keir Starmer to mend fences with the US president-elect

Evening Standard

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Badenoch predicts council tax rises on the cards amid ‘black hole’ claim

The Conservative leader raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions with Sir Keir Starmer.

The National (Scotland)

'What happened?': SNP MP takes Keir Starmer to task on Winter Fuel Payment cut

KEIR Starmer has been taken to task over his decision to make the Winter Fuel Payment means-tested after an SNP MP pointed out previous concerns he…

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer dismisses idea Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

PRIME Minister Keir Starmer has said that he does not believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ...

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law could come at expense of other NHS services, says Streeting

The Health Secretary said the Government would need to work through ‘a very new way of working’ if the Bill was passed.

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The Independent UK

Revealed: Donald Trump’s push to ‘veto Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal’

Exclusive: The Independent understands America’s new president-elect is seeking legal advice from Pentagon to challenge controversial agreement

The Independent UK

Watch: Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs as failing hospitals to be named and shamed

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 13 November, following the announcement of Labour’s plans to name and shame failing NHS hospitals as part of a package of measures aimed at tackling poor performance.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer top ally hails axing of hereditary peers as 'biggest step in Lords reform for a long time'

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden stressed MPs had backed the move and it was now down to peers to do the same

Evening Standard

‘Palliative care could improve enough for assisted dying but concerns remain’

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.

The Guardian - UK

The difference between Starmer and Badenoch that really matters? Their approach to Trump

The new Tory leader has rushed in to praise Trump and call for a US-UK trade deal that would devastate British farmers, says Starmer’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened

Stephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed

To navigate the dangerous new era, Keir Starmer must end the culture of denial around the biggest strategic mistake of modern times, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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