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The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir

Who is running in the race to become Labour’s new deputy leader?

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has emerged as the early frontrunner.

Evening Standard

Starmer now one of the West’s most unpopular leaders – even ranking lower than Trump

Keir Starmer is more unpopular than most Western leaders, including Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni, as a new poll shows the prime minister’s approval rating hitting a record low

The Independent UK

Union leaders warn of ‘massive backlash’ if Starmer axes Rayner’s workers’ rights charter

Union delegates fear the cabinet reshuffle is ‘a right-wing coup’ and warn Starmer the workers’ rights package is a ‘red line’

The Independent UK

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Sweeping changes were needed for Labour to be serious about a fresh start

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Moving so many ministers after such a short time may not seem ideal, but the end result is a team better matched to the challenges ahead

The Independent UK

Rising star Darren Jones named chief secretary to PM in Downing Street shake-up

Mr Jones will be based at No 10 and ‘directly oversee work across Government to support the delivery of the Prime Minister’s priorities’.

Evening Standard

Starmer replacing top civil servant in No 10

Nin Pandit, Sir Keir’s principal private secretary, is set to leave the role.

The Independent UK

Welsh Labour politician found dead at home, inquest opening hears

Hefin Wyn David, 47, was found dead at his home in Caerphilly.

The Independent UK

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Reform voters think Corbyn is more intelligent, hardworking and honest than Starmer, new poll shows

The brutal polling comes despite Sir Keir’s attempts to drag his party to the right to see off the threat from Nigel Farage

The Independent UK

Starmer to hold emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza to set out pathway to peace

The Prime Minister calls senior ministers in during the summer recess for the meeting on Gaza

Evening Standard

Starmer to set out plan for peace in Middle East as he convenes urgent cabinet meeting on Gaza

The prime minister is expected to use Tuesday’s meeting to present his plan for a ‘lasting peace’ in the Middle East

The Independent UK

It’s time to show us that things are going to get better, prime minister

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Despite a tumultuous and, at times, disappointing first year in office, Keir Starmer remains the best person for the job, streets ahead of any alternative leader who might theoretically replace him. But now he needs to rewire his relationship with the British people

The Independent UK

Labour sees biggest first-year poll drop for governing party since 1990s

The last government to experience a double-digit fall in the 12 months after an election was John Major’s Conservatives.

Evening Standard

Morgan McSweeney: Is welfare backlash the beginning of the end for Starmer’s right-hand man?

NEWS ANALYSIS: Labour prime minister’s chief of staff under fire over crisis around plans to limit disability and sickness-related benefits, writes Kate Devlin

The Independent UK

Starmer in crisis talks over changes to welfare bill as he attempts to stave off MPs’ rebellion

The prime minister admitted that MPs want to see welfare reform ‘implemented with Labour values of fairness’

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'Six wasted months': Keir Starmer under fire over grooming gangs inquiry U-turn

Kemi Badenoch says the Prime Minister had to be ‘led by the nose to make the correct decision’

Evening Standard

Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Sir Keir Starmer of ’emboldening Hamas’

The Israeli leader’s comments come after two Israeli embassy staff were killed in Washington DC.

The Independent UK

‘The Brexit dream is dead’: How pro-Leave media responded to Starmer’s UK-EU reset

Prime minister secures landmark deal in move dominating headlines across political spectrum

Evening Standard

Starmer ‘completely rejects’ claims he echoed Enoch Powell in migration speech

The Prime Minister warned the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’ if migration controls were not tightened.

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Evening Standard

Starmer and Badenoch clash as Labour and Tories brace for tough elections

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK hopes to take the Runcorn and Helsby seat in the Commons off Labour and scores of councillors off the Tories.

Evening Standard

‘All options remain on the table’ for Ukraine support, minister says

Environment Secretary Steve Reed called for a ‘strong alliance of countries’ to help guarantee any peace deal will hold.

Evening Standard

Sir Keir Starmer’s route to ‘common sense position’ on transgender policy

The Prime Minister has faced repeated questions over his definition of a woman in the five years since he became Labour leader.

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves budget: What’s in and out of chancellor’s ‘austerity 2’ spring statement

News analysis: In less than three weeks Rachel Reeves will deliver her spring statement to the country - an event which is already shaping up to being a second Budget

Evening Standard

Starmer suggests MPs will get vote on deploying British troops in Ukraine

The Prime Minister has suggested MPs will have a vote on deployment of troops in Ukraine, but said the situation is ‘nowhere near that stage’.

Evening Standard

Hunger-strike mother calling for release of son from Cairo to stop No 10 visits

Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 142 days as of Tuesday, in protest at her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s continued imprisonment in Cairo.

The Independent UK

MPs likely to have say on UK peacekeeping force for Ukraine, says minister

Discussion of a peacekeeping force comes as US and Russian officials meet for the first time for talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

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