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Reeves. On Wednesday afternoon, she [hit back publicly](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/21/rachel-reeves-foul-mouthed-reform-uk-heckler-good-manners-matter) against a Reform UK supporter who interrupted an interview she was giving to shout abuse about Starmer and the Labour party. “I love
Reeves](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves) must find alternative ways to increase military spending rather than slashing welfare, saying it risks public support for investment in defence. Pressure has been mounting from Labour backbenchers for the Treasury
support of enough MPs to trigger a contest. Streeting’s move to force a race has sparked a frantic scramble on the left of [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) to find a candidate to oppose
Labour's so-called soft left, which includes supporters of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. Burnham is seen as a potential challenger to Sir Keir, who blocked him from standing to become an MP earlier
Reeves is considering a package of support to help with some households’ energy bills later this summer and is under pressure to cancel a planned rise in fuel duty. Ministers hope that bold proposals
Reeves warned her fellow Labour MPs that "putting our stability at risk when signs of progress are emerging would leave families and businesses worse off". The government has made growing the economy its main priority
MPs loyal to No 10 and groups linked to the prime minister’s rivals are increasingly floating new ideas in public to push for a change of direction. Haigh, who [quit in the early months
MPs “might as well go home” if bond market considerations trumped other priorities. Investors, however, warn that a contest ignoring the fragile state of the public finances and realpolitik of the markets could prove fatal
Reeves prices would go up if she raised taxes and drowned employers in red tape. She didn’t listen and now she’s proposing Soviet style measures! ***What Tories call Starmer’s “insane” energy policy
support package. However, Britain’s oldest independent economic research institute said the government faced a multibillion-pound hole in the public finances amid a worsening inflation shock that would make it harder for Reeves
Labour MPs, seen here with Miatta Fahnbulleh and the Liverpool city region mayor, Steve Rotheram. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images There is significant support for Burnham growing among new intake MPs – but also among the centrist wing
Reeves, his chancellor. Photograph: House of Commons/PA According to close allies, Starmer has always believed that Streeting would not be able to command the support of the parliamentary party and the membership – and also that
support and they have looked to Britain as one of their most important allies and they don’t understand, given that we promised that we would stop this loophole in October and we still haven
MPs and union backers after the 10-strong “officers’ group” of the party’s ruling body, including the prime minister, voted overwhelmingly to reject Burnham’s request to seek selection for theGorton and Denton byelection
supporters feels extremely self-indulgent.” Such worries are shared even among some [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) MPs who strongly believe that Starmer should be replaced. “You can both think the PM isn’t the right
MPs considering toppling Starmer, she said: “Putting our stability at risk when signs of progress are emerging would leave families and businesses worse off.” The IMF intervention comes amid a sharp rise in government borrowing
Labour government, in part because of the budgetary problems they encountered. In an effort to save money, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced a deeply unpopular [cut to winter fuel subsidies](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/29/hospital-and-road-projects-face-cuts-to-plug-22bn-fiscal-hole-reeves-says) for pensioners
MPs required to trigger a leadership contest when he stood down, he insisted he had the necessary numbers but said he held back because he would have been accused of pulling a “fast
Reeves, laying out her economic vision, cited it as the “transport link needed to make the Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor a success”. She looked forward to the start of passenger trains in the coming months
supporting letters, photographs and medical reports. They then apply for asylum claiming to be gay and in fear for their lives if they return to Pakistan or Bangladesh. In response to our findings, the Home