The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

In today’s newsletter: The party suddenly announced an ambitious plan to bring the rail system into public ownership

Campaign Against Antisemitism, led by Gideon Falter, was set up by activists who felt existing groups were not doing enough

Shadow minister Steve Reed vows to uphold targets on biodiversity loss and protecting land and sea

Hundreds voice dismay at Sunak and Starmer, accusing them of misreading UK attitudes towards Europe

‘Bold reforms’ would see most passenger services renationalised within five years under Labour’s ‘Great British Railways’ plan

In a dangerous world, it is all to the good that the Prime Minister has committed an extra £500 million to help defend Ukraine — a useful adjunct to the billions committed by the US Congress — and intends to increase military spending to 2.5 per cent of national income…

Screw the Ming vase, Keir. If you can’t enjoy 20-point leads — and that’s on a bad day — then you have no business being in politics. We get it, power is the point (a concept that must be patiently re-explained to Labour Party members every general election defeat). Yes,…

New polling confirms people care more about jobs and public services than an orchestrated backlash against minorities – Labour, take note, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

After years of failed gimmicks and polarisation under the Tories, Britain is ready for a more grown-up approach, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

UN and Council for Europe add voices to outcry as more people drown within hours of ‘cruel’ Rwanda bill being passed

Like a spectral invigilator, George Orwell is never far from our political discourse. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer dramatised respectively the sharp distinction he drew in a famous 1945 essay between nationalism and patriotism. The Prime Minister, for his part, finally ensured that his Rwanda bill will become…