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SCOTUS upholds abortion pill telehealth access. And, Trump returns from China visit

news you need to start your day.* ### Today's top stories **The Supreme Court upheld access to the abortion pill mifepristone yesterday.** The high court's order means that the medication will remain available

Pressure on Starmer amid Mandelson revelations as Foreign Office official forced out – UK politics live

News: > double quotation markIt is utterly unacceptable, not just in the individual case of Peter Mandelson and respect of the Prime Minister’s fury at the Foreign Office for not having taught him this information

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour

Britain faces weeks of leadership limbo in slow-motion coup against Starmer

Keir Starmer meets school children at a breakfast club with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, in Ashton-under-Lyne, April 13, 2026. [Paul Ellis/Reuters] **The ‘King of the North’** Another reason for the curious slow

Digested week: Starmer is trying to carve out his legacy – but it’s not his to write | John Crace

resigned. Like all prime ministers, Keir’s legacy is not his to write.  Rioter: ‘It’s my democratic right to express

Tuesday briefing: Starmer’s ‘last chance’ speech and the possible challengers to his premiership

resignations making governing publicly impossible, [as happened to Boris Johnson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-resigns-as-conservative-leader-after-cabinet-revolt) in 2022. So far, four government aides have quit their posts, while the Guardian understands that Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary

Tuesday briefing: Can a deeply divided UK agree on an assisted dying bill?

Keir Starmer will [face a vote](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/27/mps-vote-inquiry-starmer-mandelson) on whether to launch a standards investigation into his appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. The speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, has granted a debate today

Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook

Keir Starmer. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian Starmer’s problems stem from his decision in late 2024 [to appoint Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/20/appointment-peter-mandelson-new-uk-ambassador-to-us-divides-labour-mps), a Labour peer and veteran of successive governments, as ambassador in Washington

King's 'high stakes' visit with Trump will be toughest test yet of his reign

Keir Starmer, and dismissed UK aircraft carriers as "toys" compared with US equivalents. The King is, of course, the head of the British Armed Forces. And the political relations between