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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

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

go Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is among a number of cabinet ministers calling for Sir Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his resignation, leading to splits at the top of government

Monday briefing: How is it possible the prime minister didn’t know about Mandelson’s vetting failure?

MPs going in to bat for him. Southport’s Patrick Hurley called it a “fuss over nothing”, saying: “By an order of magnitude, the bigger problem for us is the shock from the Iran

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

called on Labour to “go back to being the party of the working class”. - The SNP leader, John Swinney, [declared victory](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/john-swinney-declares-victory-for-snp-in-holyrood-elections) in the Holyrood elections – though was expected to fall short

‘No other plan comes close’: Labour MPs turn to Burnham as pressure mounts on Starmer

calling for Starmer to prepare for an orderly departure. MPs expect at least 100 MPs to endorse that after 8 May. “We need to avoid a major internal Labour party

Minister dismisses Labour rebels as ‘usual suspects’; Starmer prepares for final PMQs of parliamentary session – UK politics live

Starmer removed the whip from seven Labour MPs who voted for an SNP amendment to the king’s speech motion calling for the two-child benefit benefits cap to be abolished. Subsequently this was seen

Lucy Powell says Labour has ‘no magic bullet’ as MPs brace for heavy losses in local elections

Labour MPs in the aftermath of the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, but said the prime minister would not make a similar mistake again. Powell, who called for Keir Starmer to be more explicitly progressive during

Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

calls to resign from Labour MPs, including the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and the Hartlepool MP, Jonathan Brash. Reform’s successes meanwhile look set to confirm its place as England’s most popular party

Catherine West backs down from Starmer challenge but urges him to go by September

go by September Catherine West, the Labour MP who announced a challenge to Keir Starmer’s leadership, has changed course and said she instead wants the prime minister to set a timetable of September

Call for vote on inquiry into claims Starmer lied over Mandelson dismissed by Labour grandees – UK politics live

MPs approve an inquiry (because Labour decides not to use its majority to block the motion), then Starmer faces the ignominy of being in the same category as Johnson (at least unless or until

‘Toxic’ views of Reform UK candidates raise questions about party’s vetting

Starmer and the justice secretary, David Lammy. When would-be Reform candidates were going through vetting, the McFarlane account posted: “These Black people who feel their colour is against them. Maybe it’s because they

Monday briefing: Will the international effort to stop the further spread of hantavirus be successful?

Labour MPs tells Starmer”, the **Mail** says “Streeting and Rayner ready for Starmer’s fall” and the **Mirror**’s headline on the same topic is “Change … before it’s too late”. “Fight or go, challenger

EU preparing to offer key concession to UK in new post-Brexit agricultural deal

calls from his own MPs for him to quit. One British official said of the agricultural deal: “We’re confident on this and don’t think it’s going to be an issue

Chris Mason: PM confronts his most difficult day as party revolts

Starmer's cabinet is split on the most fundamental political question a government's top table of ministers can ever wrestle with: whether the prime minister should carry on. Clearly, a cabinet split on this

Labour expected to lose Senedd after century of winning elections in Wales

Starmer should stand down as prime minister. Both Plaid and Reform have been pitching the election as a two-horse race - encouraging voters to back them over other parties. For both parties the more seats

'Staggering' I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM

Starmer has said it's "staggering" that he, as prime minister, was not told about Lord Peter Mandelson failing to pass initial security vetting checks. The prime minister is facing calls to resign over

Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next

Starmer's premiership has never looked more vulnerable as growing numbers of his own MPs call on him to stand down after a disastrous set of election results. The prime minister has vowed to fight

Digested week: King bites his tongue as a president indulges his fantasies | John Crace

go at Spencer for just being a Green. Rod Liddle accused Hannah of class warfare in the Spectator. Alcohol is for the more refined classes, apparently. My sympathies are entirely with Spencer. Though you might

UK faces £35bn hit and risk of recession this year over impact of Iran war, thinktank warns

Labour under pressure in the run-up to a [tough round of local elections next week](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/25/labour-risk-red-wall-collapse-may-elections), Niesr said that the economic hit from the Iran war had the potential to add almost

Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout

go further however – albeit for a limited period of time – reflecting the fact that Labour officials consider these to be extraordinary circumstances. The idea is one of a number of policies being looked