The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Rachel Reeves set to make 'tough decisions' on welfare spending

UK ministers have been ordered to search for cost-cutting reforms as the Chancellor plans to take “tough decisions” on welfare and spending...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 12, 2024

700 Migrants Cross Channel To Britain In Small Boats

Two migrants who attempted the crossing died, French authorities said earlier, taking the number of people to lose their life on the dangerous sea journey to 25 since the start of the year.

International Business Times · Aug 12, 2024

Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should be protected ethnic minority

Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2024

Keir Starmer’s complicated relationship with Elon Musk’s X

After a government minister says she has deleted X, formerly Twitter, from her phone because it has become ‘a place of misery’, Kate Devlin looks at the difficult relationship between Labour politicians and the site

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2024

If these riots came as a surprise, you’ve not been paying attention

Letters: There has not been enough pushback against rightwing racist campaigns over many years to demonise refugees and Muslims, writes Jonathan Callan. Plus letters from Dr Keith Flett, Elspeth Cardy and Caroline Stewart

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

Ending two-child cap would 'lift lots of kids out of poverty', Labour minister admits

REMOVING the two-child cap on benefits would "lift a lot of children out of poverty” and Labour could have scrapped it, a UK Government…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 11, 2024

Labour ministers will ‘mess up’ and disappoint voters, Jess Phillips says

Minister accuses Tory government of ‘spitting in our face and telling us it is raining’

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2024

‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank

Exclusive: Defence thinktank says rightwing violence ‘often classified as mere thuggery’ by politicians and prosecutors

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

‘We’re too frightened to talk about immigration,’ warns top Labour party veteran

Dame Margaret Hodge echoes calls for Labour to be bold in supporting multiculturalism, too

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

Social media site X is ‘only a place of misery’, Government minister says

Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, spoke out after a spat between the PM and X boss Elon Musk.

Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2024