The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Labour leader Keir Starmer wants to remove the charitable status of private schools that means parents don’t pay VAT on fees, but Rishi Sunak has rejected the idea

Keir Starmer told the PM to 'end the Tory scandal' of massive tax breaks for private schools, which are able to escape paying VAT on their fees due to their charitable status

Labour leader asks PM why he handed his old school Winchester £6m in taxpayers’ money

Shell has told employees to “avoid talking about” the boss’s leaving do

The Labour leader used the weekly session of Prime Minister's to blast the "Tory scandal" of charitable status for independent schools as he declared "trickle down education is nonsense"

Keir Starmer demands end to handouts which have helped give PM’s old school ‘a rowing club and extensive art collection’

Isn’t it lovely not to hear so much news about politicians these days? Since I make my living thinking and writing about politics I probably shouldn’t reveal this, but even I’m relieved by days when the headlines aren’t dominated by politicians yelling insults at each other about yet another mega-crisis.

Damian Hinds says acute increase in prison population means he has requested temporary use of up to 400 police cells

Rishi Sunak's Government has defended the charitable status of independent schools and claimed they have an 'important role to play in levelling up opportunities' - despite the Levelling Up Secretary's 2017 remarks