The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Rayner the raver: deputy PM spotted behind decks at Ibiza club

Video footage shows Angela Rayner dancing to remix of Somebody That I Used to Know

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

The lady’s not for returning – but where has No 10’s Thatcher portrait gone?

Painting that hung in former PM’s study since 2009 no longer there – but aides are tightlipped as to whereabouts

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Flirty chats, juicy gossip, bracing night air – think what we’d miss if Starmer banned smoking areas

Even though I rarely light up now, these casual gatherings are still my happy place, says writer Daisy Jones

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

The Iron Lady consigned to the ironing cupboard? Keir Starmer did pledge to do things differently

After a week extolling smoking bans and budget misery, the PM delivered his coup de grace: exiling a famous Thatcher portrait from No 10, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

How Keir Starmer’s pub garden smoking ban would work

Everything you need to know as Labour refuses to rule out major new smoking laws

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2024

Margaret Thatcher portrait will stay on display in No10, minister says after backlash

Sir Keir Starmer is reported to have found one portrait of his Tory predecessor ‘unsettling’ and wanted it to be moved

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2024

Government seeking to make ‘fewer places where you can smoke’ – as it happened

Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give up

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Starmer removes ‘unsettling’ £100,000 Thatcher portrait from 10 Downing Street

The claim by Sir Keir’s biographer has sparked outrage among Conservative MPs

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2024

Starmer’s Berlin trip was a real success. But let’s not confuse Germany with the EU

If the British prime minister wants a closer relationship with the EU, he needs to go to Brussels, not just Berlin and Paris says the German historian Helene von Bismarck

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

If Starmer and Reeves think they have a foolproof strategy – wait until winter comes

When the bills hit the mat and taxes go up, Labour’s talk of ‘short-term pain’ will feel intolerable to poor households, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024