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UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

successfully removed an incumbent prime minister in its 125-year history. The prime minister is helped by the fact that two frontrunners to succeed him if he goes – Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and former

Labour MPs have put Starmer on notice after election battering. Can he turn it around?

Keir Starmer's most loyal ministers are pushing him to change - and fast. The prime minister is nothing if not a determined man. But can he show he can turn it round? Millions of voters

Starmer rejects accusation that Labour is ‘complacent’ on defence funding

Keir Starmer has said he does not agree with George Robertson’s comments about the government’s “corrosive complacency” on defence funding, as the prime minister faced sustained pressure on the issue. Questioned

Top lawyer whose 'Mr Rules' approach failed to connect with the public

prime minister and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, spent their early days in Downing Street warning that the scale of the economic problems they had inherited from the Conservatives was far worse than they had expected

Keir Starmer's party lost big in U.K. local elections. Here's what comes next.

Keir Starmer and his Labour party suffered major losses in elections held across Britain last week, resulting in multiple calls for Starmer to resign. The historic losses are a reflection of growing unpopularity with Starmer

Badenoch says Labour ‘just want a better salesman’. It would be a good start

Keir Done](https://whathaskeirdone.co.uk/). However, the list is confused and lacklustre: one of the first points says he has “secured a £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth

UK-registered firms linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds

successful crossing. "If your people do not cross, if he tells me to return your money back to you, I'll do it," although he acknowledged that a safe crossing could not be guaranteed

Pressure mounts on Starmer to quit after Burnham’s by-election win

Keir Starmer is weighing whether to resign within days, according to media reports, amid mounting pressure from his own Labour Party following a decisive by-election win by his rival, Andy Burnham. Expectation is growing

Personal decision for Starmer on whether to fight leadership contest, minister says

Starmer whether he chooses to fight any potential leadership contest, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said. She told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Sir Keir had "shown before that

What was HMRC’s investigation into Angela Rayner’s tax affairs all about?

Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. --- ## What was the tax issue that led to Angela Rayner’s resignation? When the then deputy prime minister bought a flat in Hove with her partner in April

Europe must face up to ‘tensions’ with Trump, Keir Starmer says

Keir Starmer has acknowledged that “tensions” between Donald Trump and Europe are high as he attends a summit of the [European Political Community](https://www.theguardian.com/world/european-political-community) dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran. With

'We need to move quickly,' says Labour MP seeking to challenge PM

Starmer to stay there" she said but added: "For the sake of the country... Labour should change their leader." Health Secretary Wes Streeting, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham

Mandelson criticised Starmer’s lack of ‘verve’ and tendency to buckle under pressure

prime minister’s then chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, had been “confident” about winning Runcorn. “The problem is the government doesn’t give a sense of crusading to turn round and change Britain. That

Middle East crisis live: Iran warns it will close strait of Hormuz if US blockade continues

Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron – who on Friday co-chaired a virtual summit of about 50 countries on the issue – said the reopening must become permanent. - **Oil prices tumbled after Iran’s Hormuz

More than 200,000 migrants have crossed Channel in small boats since 2018

Successive governments have promised to reduce migrant arrivals through this route and halt the smuggling operations that facilitate the dangerous crossings, but the number of small boat arrivals has more than doubled in the last

Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism

Keir Starmer responded with their own essays to a highly critical intervention by Tony Blair, which said the party should reject workers’ rights reforms and net zero and allow far greater market freedoms. Mathew Lawrence

Alleged Correspondents' Dinner shooter to appear in court. And, Charles III visits U.S.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer wanted it to go forward, despite the president insulting him. Frayer attended a small protest at the palace gates. She spoke with protester Tom Walker, a member of a group called

Minister rejects Blair intervention, accusing ex-PM of retreading old arguments – UK politics live

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) is defending his legacy with renewed vigour. The last thing anyone expected was for **Tony Blair** to join in. But he has, sort of, with a 5,700-word essay

Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and cut benefits

Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting) of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground, warning that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means

A political nerd’s guide to Britain’s by-election

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is on its knees. Starmer has had a miserable time [since winning a landslide](https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-boring-keir-starmer-joe-biden-united-kingdom-america-election/) general election two years ago. He is historically unpopular, and Labour