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Keir Starmer had been planning a big speech today, but he, and other political leaders, are today focusing on their response to the Golders Green stabbing and the antisemitism threat facing Britain’s Jewish community
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) was hoping that there would not be a need for a PMQs today, but we have got one, and it will definitely be the last of the 2024-26 parliamentary
Starmer's speech. Was it enough to avert a challenge to the prime minister's leadership less than two years after he won a landslide general election victory? In the first instance, the person whose
speech on Tuesday night, warning: “We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget.” However, Murray, the chief secretary to the Treasury, suggested Robertson had got it wrong. “I think on the question
Keir Starmer has said he does not agree with George Robertson’s comments about the government’s “corrosive complacency” on defence funding, as the prime minister faced sustained pressure on the issue. Questioned
Starmer has insisted he will not quit as prime minister and "plunge the country into chaos", as Labour reels from significant election losses. The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure
speech: The U.S. and its European allies are stronger together.** "We must not disregard everything that has sustained us for the last 80 years. Instead, we must build on it," he said. NPR's Elena
reaction from across the world has been overwhelmingly positive too. [The New York Times comments on](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/king-charles-trump-rebuke.html) his "subtle rebuttals" to Trump, while [Le Monde said](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/29/king-charles-iii-urges-us-not-to-turn-inward-in-speech-to-congress-in-washington_6752951_4.html) it took a King