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critics. After Keir Starmer’s two years in power, the government has struggled to show much progress on its top priority of growing the economy. However, the message also works for an internal audience
Wes Streeting, the former British health secretary who resigned from the government this week, says he will run to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer when the contest is triggered. Starmer’s government has been
Wes Streeting's brilliant work on such a critical mission", but who is he, and what issues will he face in his in tray? The new Health and Social Care Secretary was elected
Keir Starmer has his back against the wall. He has had to deal with a spring of conflict, at home and abroad: America and Israel's war against Iran, which began
critics say he failed to deliver Wes Streeting’s 22 months in office was characterised by relentless media interviews, newspaper editorials and Department of Health and Social Care press releases. They portrayed a dynamic health
Keir Starmer faced a threat to his leadership, his core team [assembled in the cabinet room](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/how-the-downing-street-machine-ensured-starmer-survived-to-fight-another-day) and persuaded ministers to fire off a succession of supportive tweets in an attempt to keep
Keir Starmer. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images However, the prime minister’s fragile authority has been further weakened by the resignation of four ministers – three of them close allies of Streeting – in what appeared
critics or those with a dog slavering to get in to the fight. Someone who has been close to Sir Keir pointed out there was "no substance on the cost of living - no pound
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) told his cabinet he would not stand down while a formal leadership contest had not been triggered. The letter, coordinated by backbenchers, has been signed by 103 MPs, including parliamentary
Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, [his second king’s speech](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/starmer-sets-out-changes-to-education-health-and-courts-in-kings-speech), in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation
Keir Starmer has said he will prove his doubters wrong as he warned Labour was facing “very dangerous opponents” in a make-or-break speech, with leadership rivals on the brink of a challenge. Starmer
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), has said officials were under pressure from Downing Street to get Mandelson to Washington, but said the pressure did not influence his decision to grant him clearance. Robbins has said
Wes Streeting’s resignation letter, a cadence so similar to Burnham’s own that it cannot be accidental. So is this the first glimmer of a deal between Labour’s two powerhouses – the soft left
Keir Starmer’s own constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. Labour activists knocking on doors across the borough report being regularly confronted with Starmer’s unpopularity – one activist confessed to being taken by surprise
Starmer said to the cabinet today, at the start of what was - let's remember - just its standard weekly scheduled meeting. The prime minister's message was spoken to a full meeting of 28 cabinet
Wes Streeting was in Parliament with his closest advisers mulling whether he should quit the cabinet job as health secretary that he had coveted for years. And that afternoon Angela Rayner slipped into a London
Keir Starmer is likely to face a leadership challenge amid calls from parliamentarians for him to step down following the Labour Party’s stunning loss in local elections. Backbencher Labour MP Catherine West urged cabinet
Keir Starmer, for Olly Robbins, and for the wider intelligence and security establishment – all of which is just starting to pan out. --- **What actually happened?** After Labour’s July 2024 election victory, Mandelson quickly
Keir Starmer is set to face his cabinet as more than 80 Labour MPs have called for him to resign, following the party’s devastating local elections losses last week. The cabinet is said
Wes Streeting thought to be plotting a leadership challenge. Supporters of Streeting told the BBC they expected the health secretary to challenge Sir Keir for the Labour leadership as soon as Thursday. Streeting would need