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Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) said on Monday. The prime minister said tech companies must activate nudity-detection algorithms or other technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to prevent users taking photos or sharing images

What Starmer said, and didn’t say, in the Commons about the Mandelson saga

Keir Starmer has laid out a detailed timeline of events leading up to [Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) being refused security vetting and how the message was not passed to No 10. Here’s what

Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount

Starmer is to promise bolder action to tackle "big challenges" facing the country, as he battles to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader. The prime minister will seek to reset

Police declare terrorist incident after two Jewish men stabbed in London

Starmer said the "antisemitic attack" - the latest in a string in the UK - was "utterly appalling", adding: "Attacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain." The Met said its officers responded

Sturgeon showed 'remarkable lack of curiosity' over SNP finances, says former MP

resigned from the national executive committee. "There just seemed to be a remarkable lack of curiosity on the part of Nicola Sturgeon and other members of the national executive committee at that time - some

Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say

Keir Starmer, whom Burnham has pledged to challenge if elected, but also the viability of the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party as a whole. The prime minister spent the weekend at Chequers considering his political

Andy Burnham wins huge majority in Makerfield byelection, paving way for Starmer leadership challenge

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), who’s the prime minister, Andy Burnham, who’s the challenger, and Wes Streeting, who’s also a challenger – should be got in a room by the deputy leader

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Starmer? The former minister Catherine West's interview with Radio 4's PM programme immediately raised eyebrows around Westminster. Plenty of Labour MPs from across the party have told us they didn

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

Keir Starmer’s leadership. Barring a drastic change in fortunes, Labour’s vote-share could fall to historic lows across elections for councils in England and devolved parliaments in Wales and [Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland)

Henry Nowak arrest footage raises 'serious questions for police', PM says

Starmer says there are "serious questions for police" following the release of bodycam vision showing how officers responded to the murder of teenager Henry Nowak. His killer Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed on Monday

Ministers speak out in cabinet meeting over Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins

Keir’s Starmer’s decision to sack Olly Robbins as the Foreign Office’s top official over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal as they warned him not to [alienate the civil service](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/anger-whitehall-civil-service-olly-robbins-sacked-keir-starmer),

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will, Labour MP tells cabinet

Starmer as party leader by Monday, she will attempt to trigger a leadership contest herself. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, she said her preferred option would be for the cabinet to "reorganise themselves

Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers heavy election losses including historic Wales defeat

Starmer has insisted he will not quit as prime minister and "plunge the country into chaos", as Labour reels from significant election losses. The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure

Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat

Keir Starmer adviser Matt Clifford](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/20/keir-starmers-ai-tsar-to-step-down-after-six-months-in-role) and the UK Conservative MP [Tom Tugendhat](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/24/tom-tugendhat-enters-race-for-conservative-party-leadership); and Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, the CEO of Kuwait Petroleum. [Separate reporting](https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/) in Wired

Energy bills, business rates and HS2: What are Burnham's potential policies?

Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party - and the country. During the by-election campaign, he set out a number of policy ideas. Burnham committed to the [economic rules Chancellor Rachel Reeves

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

Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and Israel

Keir Starmer is presented with flowers as he arrives at an airport in Beijing in January. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images While the vetting process was under way in January 2025, Mandelson is understood to have received

Tuesday briefing: Can a deeply divided UK agree on an assisted dying bill?

Keir Starmer will [face a vote](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/27/mps-vote-inquiry-starmer-mandelson) on whether to launch a standards investigation into his appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. The speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, has granted a debate today