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MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

Keir to be given a different role, which he might enjoy, perhaps an international role,” West said. She added: “I don’t have a candidate. That’s part of the problem. But I think there

JLR and General Motors eye £900m contract to build new range of military trucks

Keir Starmer committed to spending 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, amid a [rise in military spending across Nato](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/10/defence-sovereignty-europe-builds-low-cost-weapons-drones) that has made government contracts an increasingly attractive alternative for carmakers facing

John Healey’s departure is less of a surprise than it might seem

Keir Starmer became Labour leader. This was, Healey set out, due to Starmer’s unwillingness or inability to overrule the Treasury and secure a sufficiently rapid increase in defence spending, something he said would make

Sanctions on settlers not enough: Target Israeli gov’t, say campaigners

plans, funds, and executes settlement expansion. Israel has undermined the Oslo Accords, which called for the freezing of settlements. At the time of the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s, some 250,000 settlers lived