PMQs: Badenoch wins by hammering Starmer on tax hikes
The Tory leader landed blows against the government’s upcoming increase to national insurance contributions — leaving the PM struggling to respond with clarity.
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British MPs already want a vote on sending troops to Ukraine
Labour MPs — and opposition lawmakers too — are asking for a parliamentary say on any British escalation.
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Numerous UK politicos have found their group chats getting two ticks — from the entire British public.
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UK and US must halt escalation in Ukraine | Letters
Diane Abbott MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Ayoub Khan MP, Shockat Adam MP, Iqbal Mohamed MP, Adnan Hussain MP, Brian Eno, Alex Gordon, Fran Heathcote, Sophie Bolt and Lindsey German say diplomacy is the only path to peace. Plus, Laurie Farnum on why Russia can…
UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened
Stephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’Wes Streeting has now delivered his speech to the NHS Providers conference in Liverpool, and it is b…
Even Britain’s left-wing government seeks lessons from Giorgia Meloni
Keir Starmer wants to ape Italy on tackling irregular migration. He should brace for controversy.
UK far-right riots: everything we know
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Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – UK politics live
Parliament the most diverse by race and gender the country has ever seen, says Starmer, with the largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs in the worldDowning Street has released a full version of what Keir Starmer said in his opening remarks to the metro mayors at…
Britain’s new power list: 12 people you need to know in the UK Labour government
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now in office. These are the people who really matter in his government.
How the Tory election campaign melted down in six disastrous weeks
Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly — and paid a terrible price.
Rising violence against politicians is an attack on democracy itself | Simon Tisdall
Seemingly random assaults in Britain and other parts of Europe are coming from left and rightThe response of Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s centre-left prime minister, to being physically assaulted in a Copenhagen street was dignified and very human. “I’…