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Starmer talks to the broadcast political editors when we are on trips overseas to international summits. We take it in turns to sit down with him, and often have six or seven minutes each. Needless
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
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) has stuck for several weeks. “Although, that might depend on the size of the majority.” In the end, [Andy Burnham’s majority](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/19/andy-burnham-wins-makerfield-byelection-paving-way-labour-leadership-challenge) was so convincing that allies
Keir Starmer has said it was “unforgivable” that he was not told that [Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) had failed his security vetting before being appointed as ambassador to Washington. The prime minister said
Starmer has confirmed conversations took place about a potential diplomatic role for his senior aide Matthew Doyle. The ex-communications chief was made a Labour peer after leaving Downing Street in March
Keir Starmer to suspend a big joint defence project with the US, saying that under [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) the country is “not the partner it once was”. In a statement on Wednesday, Labour
Keir Starmer condemned the Reform UK leader, saying Nowak’s family had explicitly asked that the case not be used to target particular communities. Starmer said in a TV interview at Downing Street: “Nigel Farage
Starmer has appointed former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a special envoy on global finance, as he attempts to shore up his position after his party suffered heavy election losses. Downing Street said
Keir for the Labour leadership and keys to No 10. He would otherwise be barred from doing so without a seat in Parliament, making the Labour leadership a key issue in the contest in Makerfield
Keir Starmer’s most senior advisers were briefed about an “indefensible” investigation into journalists writing critical pieces about the Labour Together thinktank, according to a newly released document. Among the aides who received updates
Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister. In a message to voters on Thursday, Starmer said Reform’s Nigel Farage and the Greens’ [Zack Polanski](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/zack-polanski) were “not fit to meet this moment
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 is expected to announce on Monday that he will step down as prime minister, after overwhelming pressure from Labour MPs to make way for [Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham) to become Labour leader
Starmer told the House of Commons three times that "full due process" was followed during the peer's appointment. The prime minister says that at the time, he was unaware that the Foreign Office
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) was calling ministers and MPs into his office in parliament to plead with them not to allow a competition to be triggered. He told MPs that
Keir’s not going without a fight. Our plan is to be more [Harry Truman](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26661213) and less [Joe Biden](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jan/18/biden-presidency-legacy-trump-election).” Steve Reed, one of the cabinet ministers most loyal
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) does announce a timetable for an autumn departure from Downing Street, the machinery of government will again kick into gear for a handover of power – but one that will
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), had his own Sir Humphrey moment – potentially an existential one. Olly Robbins, [fired by the prime minister](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/16/foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-leaves-post-in-mandelson-vetting-row) as the Foreign Office’s permanent secretary after not informing
Starmer. It is not a done deal. Sir Keir has said he will not seek to block Burnham from standing in Josh Simons' Makerfield constituency. But he will still need to be selected
resignation speech in the Commons yesterday. As [the BBC reports](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2pxz7de41o), Streeting proposed a “wealth tax that works” – by which he means not what most people think of as a wealth