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European ministers to discuss sending rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs

challenged Conservative government plans to remove them to the third-country hub of Rwanda using the ECHR. Refugee organisations have said that undermining the convention risks weakening protection for society’s most vulnerable groups, including

Starmer sees off Tory calls for inquiry into Mandelson role after No 10 flexes muscle

Keir Starmer saw off an opposition bid to refer him to a standards committee over Peter Mandelson’s appointment after Downing Street deployed its full weight to force Labour MPs to shore up the prime

Andy Burnham vows to ‘change Labour’ in direct challenge to Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) said on Monday he had no intention of stepping aside should Burnham win the byelection and that he wanted to fight the next election, setting up a potentially ugly battle

Starmer facing pressure from Burnham and Streeting allies not to fight leadership challenge

facing pressure from Burnham and Streeting allies not to fight leadership challenge Allies of Andy Burnham and [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting) will ask cabinet ministers, friends and Labour grandees to persuade Keir Starmer over

King Charles visits Trump: what are the potential pitfalls for the monarch?

Keir Starmer than for Charles, particularly after the [Peter Mandelson and Olly Robbins controversy](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/olly-robbins-peter-mandelson-vetting-keir-starmer). “It’s another aspect of this desperate desire to court Trump and to take really significant risks

How safe is Starmer’s premiership after his Mandelson vetting statement to MPs?

Keir Starmer’s No 10 have often urged the prime minister to be more forceful in his arguments, to prosecute his values, to find an enemy to define himself against. The prime minister has found

TUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election

Keir Starmer’s government and warned that significant change is needed to prevent Reform UK from winning power. In his first intervention as the battle rages over the future of the Labour leadership

What next for Starmer? Five scenarios in Labour leadership crisis

Starmer's grip on power but there is still no clear resolution to the leadership crisis affecting Labour. Andy Burnham is seeking to stand in a by-election triggered by the resignation of a Labour

How would a Labour leadership contest work?

Starmer that "deeds, not words matter". Communities Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh and Victims Minister Alex Davies-Jones have also resigned. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also among those calling for him to set a date

Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to deliver

office was characterised by relentless media interviews, newspaper editorials and Department of Health and Social Care press releases. They portrayed a dynamic health secretary who was clearing up the mess he inherited

Is it harder than ever to be prime minister?

Starmer, an incumbent premier with a bigger parliamentary majority than his transformative predecessor Clement Attlee won in 1945. What is driving this narrative? Why is the UK churning through its leaders almost as quickly

Talk of Starmer staying on to fight is fading - fast

Keir Starmer fighting is fading, his exit seems more likely as the weekend goes on. The prime minister is at his country retreat, Chequers, spending time with his wife. The man coming

‘Why are we even doing this?’ The week that left Britain’s PM looking like an interim leader

Keir Starmer’s successor apparent. Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters She began by saying that if no one in the cabinet was willing to seek the 81 nominations needed to kickstart a leadership race, she would. This

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

Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution – as it happened

challenge in history”. A third of the 80 Middle East energy facilities his agency was monitoring had been damaged, he said. Birol warned that April could be worse than March for the world economy because

Starmer expected to announce exit plan that will clear way for Burnham to become PM

office until the autumn, allowing a new leader to rally [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) troops at the party’s annual conference at the end of September. It is understood that he will do so having

Polls close in elections across England, Scotland and Wales

Keir Starmer since the 2024 general election. Results across three nations could fundamentally change the political landscape and could have repercussions for the prime minister. In what is seen as the first true multiparty battle

Friday briefing: Andy Burnham wins Makerfield byelection to set up possible leadership bid

Keir Starmer should agree to an “orderly and managed” handover of power. After a week in which Starmer doubled down on his vow to stay put as prime minister, despite more than 100 backbenchers having

Cabinet split as Mahmood calls on Starmer to set out timetable to go

Starmer to set out a timetable for his resignation, leading to splits at the top of government. It is understood Mahmood is in the minority in the cabinet over whether Sir Keir should

How the High Street became a window on our political instability

Keir Starmer's resignation, Westminster is paying more attention. Housing Secretary Steve Reed directly linked the state of High Streets to people's faith in politics. "Each of the last four prime ministers have been