The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

The Labour leader also suggested a change of government would help to address the ‘big issues’ like the cost-of-living crisis.

Labour leader says Cabinet have been ‘complicit’ in ‘this sorry saga’ as he calls for more resignations

The First Minister of Wales was asked if he agrees with the UK Labour leader

Starmer has now made clear that the Labour party neither seeks to nor intends to reverse Brexit

The bleak fate of many Opposition leaders is to be remembered as necessary but not sufficient. Yes, they advanced the cause of their powerless parties. Their work made a difference and was essential to electoral recovery; but not so much that they themselves made it to the promised land.

In Today’s Diary: Friend of Francis Bacon blasts Tate / Sir Ranulph still sleeps in his car/ Keir Starmer seems to blame economy for poll woes / Thomas Hardy tree to topple

Almost five years on, Jagtar has not stood trial in any of the cases against him and alleges the was beaten, electrocuted and tortured while in initial custody.

In today’s newsletter: we unpack the shifting explanation of what Boris Johnson knew of claims against former deputy chief whip

Outright lies are the currency of a PM caught fibbing time after time, most notoriously over Partygate, with the fined lawbreaker facing a Parliamentary inquiry over evidence he ­knowingly misled MPs with outright denials