Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible Tony Blair’s bodged upper house reform enabled a kind of Garrick Club, with no risk of women The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024
If Starmer is on a US charm offensive, he must meet Trump as well as Harris The former president remains the likelier winner of the election, and the UK needs a working relationship with whoever is in the White House The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024
Chancellor faces down would-be rebels ahead of winter fuel payment vote Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024
Starmer’s winter fuel cut: the London MPs backing revolt ...The Standard podcast Plus, a fully automated transcript of this episode Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2024
OPINION - Keir Starmer parties like it's [House of Lords Act] 1999 Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that. Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2024
I won’t play the SNP and Labour’s game on these cuts ... we can do much better THERE’S no denying that Scotland’s public finances are in perhaps the most challenging state in the entire devolution era. The National (Scotland) · Sep 3, 2024
‘I didn’t expect to win’: Labour’s new MPs adjusting to Commons life With more than half of parliament’s intake new to the job, many are still in a transition from their former careers The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2024
Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for using Holocaust poem to criticise smoking ban Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2024
Rachel Reeves to extend support fund to help poorest households Chancellor understood to be looking at fifth extension of scheme to support people at risk of destitution The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2024
UK politics live: Priti Patel says four-day week would have ‘devastating impact’ as smoking ban faces backlash Priti Patel attacks Starmer for seeking to make ‘fewer places where you can smoke’ The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2024
Starmer pledges to ‘reverse a decade of decline’ amid cronyism row The prime minister will promise to do the hard work to ‘root out 14 years of rot’ The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2024
It seems clear the UK has assisted Israel’s breaches of international law. Surely Labour can do better than deny it The new foreign secretary has access to data not available to the public – and has a duty to model respect for the law, says barrister Sam Fowles The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2024
Austerity is still austerity, even under a Labour government The chancellor should be flushed with victory. Instead, she is adhering to an opposition dogma that undermines her own objectives The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024
Thousands Of Riot Police On Standby As UK Braces For More Riots Thousands of UK riot police on Wednesday stood ready to deal with more potential outbreaks of violence, which erupted more than a week ago after three children were murdered. International Business Times · Aug 7, 2024
Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2024 OPINION - These nasty UK riots have revealed some worrying blind spots To watch the UK in its present state from the vantage point of a holiday is a matter of shame: the images of crowds rampaging and threatening are on TV screens across the continent. The British state looks slow-footed, the police at the edge of control.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2024 Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told North-west and West Midlands worst hit, says thinktank, and in some areas half of children live below breadline
The National (Scotland) · Aug 5, 2024 'Disappointing': Former LBC host slams Ed Balls after Zarah Sultana interview FORMER LBC broadcaster Sangita Myska has called out Ed Balls and Kate Garraway for their “very disappointing” interview with Zarah Sultana...
The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2024 86TVs’ Felix White: ‘The way The Maccabees ended stung… it was heartbreaking for me’ The guitarist tells Mark Beaumont why it took eight years to make an 86TVs debut album, why he made the Tailenders cricket podcast, and how he and his brothers dealt with losing their mother to MS
The National (Scotland) · Jul 30, 2024 Number 10 issues warning amid Southport stabbings disinformation “Unhelpful” speculation about the deadly knife attack in Southport must be avoided while police continue to investigate, Downing Street has…
The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024 ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty Alongside prosperity in Holborn and St Pancras are thousands of households for whom lifting the two-child benefit cap could mean an end to hunger
The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2024 Integrate NHS services and job centres to get more people working, report says Exclusive: Pioneering study says regime based largely on benefit sanctions has failed to tackle economic inactivity
The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024 Labour urged to follow through on Tories’ promised £100m gambling levy Campaigners write to Keir Starmer saying delay in implementing industry reforms will cost lives
The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2024 Tory leader contest up in air as party figures disagree on timetable Idea for interim leader and candidates not chosen until autumn conflicting with desire to act sooner
The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2024 Lammy says Christianity and class give him common ground with JD Vance UK foreign secretary says he has talked to Trump running mate as he seeks to build bridges with senior Republicans
The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024 ‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap As Labour backbenchers call for Keir Starmer to scrap the cap, families reveal their struggles as a result of the two-child limit