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Foreign secretary concerned ministers not told of Mandelson vetting fears sooner

Starmer is facing calls to resign from opposition parties and is due to answer questions on the scandal in Parliament on Monday. The Foreign Office's top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked

Wednesday briefing: ​Can the UK adapt in time to a new normal of extreme heat?

Keir Starmer has announced. 5. ***US politics*** | Alabama [cannot use a new Republican-friendly map](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/alabama-new-congressional-map-struck-down) in this year’s midterm elections because it intentionally discriminates against Black voters, a panel of three

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/23/karl-turner-former-labour-mp-calls-starmer-face-commons-committee-mandelson-vetting), and the wider Labour party, and would be likely to amplify already loud calls for him to resign. Separatists in office in all three devolved nations for the first time

Is it harder than ever to be prime minister?

Starmer, an incumbent premier with a bigger parliamentary majority than his transformative predecessor Clement Attlee won in 1945. What is driving this narrative? Why is the UK churning through its leaders almost as quickly

‘Cynical to get power’: Michel Barnier on Boris Johnson, Brexit and the EU’s future

offices on the fifth floor of the EU’s Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels with the various political agitators of the time. ![Michel Barnier stands at a table and presses his hands on to its surface

Frozen by the challenges of power: how Starmer turned triumph into tragedy

failure was the lack of an obvious political belief system. “A core philosophy is the thing that holds you together when it’s falling apart,” Runciman said. “Margaret Thatcher was the exemplar of this

Olly Robbins is just the latest: a guide to the high-profile exits under Starmer’s tenure

Keir Starmer’s two-year tenure as prime minister. Here we take a look at some of the most high-profile resignations since Starmer came to power. ## Officials 1. --- ### Sue Gray Gray was the prime

Thursday briefing: ​Why the US president is losing support from crucial allies

Keir Starmer was looking increasingly isolated over the Peter Mandelson scandal as the Guardian learned of [concerns around the cabinet table](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/22/olly-robbins-starmer-sacking-ministers-cabinet-meeting), a senior minister refused to say the dismissal of Olly Robbins

Talk of Starmer staying on to fight is fading - fast

Keir Starmer fighting is fading, his exit seems more likely as the weekend goes on. The prime minister is at his country retreat, Chequers, spending time with his wife. The man coming