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Keir Starmer makes late pitch to voters turning to Greens and Reform

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

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

Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on as prime minister despite [early results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/local-elections-2026-may-full-results-england-scotland-wales) in local elections that show his party suffering heavy losses, many at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Reform

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

Keir Starmer’s government, a leading thinktank has warned. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) said that even under a best-case scenario the UK economy would grow at a much slower

Chris Mason: Elections this week a smorgasbord of competitiveness

challenge since its advent in the 1920s." He added: "The basic assumptions of British politics - there isn't enough space for a party to the right of the Tories or the left of Labour - have

How safe is Starmer’s premiership after his Mandelson vetting statement to MPs?

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

Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook

Keir Starmer. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian Starmer’s problems stem from his decision in late 2024 [to appoint Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/20/appointment-peter-mandelson-new-uk-ambassador-to-us-divides-labour-mps), a Labour peer and veteran of successive governments, as ambassador in Washington

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

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

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

Why Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented modern British politics

Starmer's job, Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Secretary State for Housing, Steve Reed, completes the quartet of powerful London MPs in the Cabinet. A significant percentage of the party's activists, and the members

Tuesday briefing: How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong

Keir Starmer will call for a [whole-of-society response](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/04/starmer-call-society-response-rising-antisemitism) to rising antisemitism on Tuesday, saying that it is not enough simply to condemn the scourge, but people “must show it” through