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SCOTUS upholds abortion pill telehealth access. And, Trump returns from China visit

2024, when the overall FDA authorization of the abortion pill mifepristone was challenged. It remained available after that case. **Jose Luis Magana/AP** Jose Luis Magana/AP - 🎧 **The FDA's lawyers argued in the lower courts that

UK’s Keir Starmer faces likely challenge following Labour’s election defeat

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

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

Polls close in elections across England, Scotland and Wales

Keir Starmer since the 2024 general election. Results across three nations could fundamentally change the political landscape and could have repercussions for the prime minister. In what is seen as the first true multiparty battle

Starmer to face split cabinet as demands for his resignation mount

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

Starmer says he will campaign for Burnham in Makerfield

Starmer has said he will be out campaigning for potential Labour leadership rival Andy Burnham ahead of the Makerfield by-election. Sir Keir said Labour needed to "all pull together and fight

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

election. What had changed? In one sense, nothing more than events. Streeting’s ambition has long been a subject for open discussion and frequent jokes within Labour, including self-deprecating ones from the man himself

UK’s Labour set for heavy losses in elections as Reform makes early gains

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is bracing for [heavy defeats in local elections](/news/2026/5/7/uk-voters-head-to-the-polls-in-local-elections), with Reform UK poised to make gains across the country, according to early results. Labour’s woes were already evident

A political nerd’s guide to Britain’s by-election

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is on its knees. Starmer has had a miserable time [since winning a landslide](https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-boring-keir-starmer-joe-biden-united-kingdom-america-election/) general election two years ago. He is historically unpopular, and Labour has collapsed

Starmer loyalist warns against ‘copying Tories’ but admits PM is unpopular

Keir Starmer’s closest allies in the cabinet has conceded that the prime minister is “unpopular” but has insisted Labour should not repeat the same pattern of changing leaders that damaged the Conservatives. The housing

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

Keir Starmer shakes hands with Harriet Harman outside No 10](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7814deefd0f07178b8329dd1ca91e98ce4c172a3/0_0_1920_1080/master/1920.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Harriet Harman was Labour’s deputy leader under Gordon Brown. Photograph: International Pool/PA With the bulk of the votes now counted from

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

Keir to be given a different role, which he might enjoy, perhaps an international role,” West said. She added: “I don’t have a candidate. That’s part of the problem. But I think there

UK wins court case over collapsed Rwanda asylum deal

Keir Starmer shortly after he took office, an international court has ruled. The Rwandan government had sought to sue the UK for more than £100m, saying it had breached the terms of the deal. Signed

European ministers to discuss sending rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs

challenged Conservative government plans to remove them to the third-country hub of Rwanda using the ECHR. Refugee organisations have said that undermining the convention risks weakening protection for society’s most vulnerable groups, including

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Keir Starmer, even though voters have given the party a “real kicking” at the ballot box and people feel “bitterly let down”, the education secretary, [Bridget Phillipson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/bridget-phillipson), has said. Phillipson said [Labour

‘Starmer’s referendum’: How local elections could expose a fractured UK

Keir Starmer is facing a tough stress test. His Labour Party on Thursday will battle local and devolved elections under mounting political pressure. Voters across England, Wales and Scotland are expected to deliver Labour their

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

In Britain, Brexit is debated again as Starmer’s grip on power slips

Keir Starmer about rejoining when there’s an election in 2029 and at the moment it looks likely that, or at least highly possible that, it will be won by parties who are fervently opposed

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers of his leadership rivals Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. MPs from across the party’s ranks said the prime