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election. But there was a period around Starmer's 2024 victory when the SNP appeared to be on the ropes. Voters were turning away from the party amid a police investigation into the party
elections on 7 May. Polls suggest after more than 100 years in office in [Wales](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/wales), Labour will come third or even fourth next month, behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK. Starmer
impact in Wales and Scotland of Sir Keir Starmer's woes? "It's just so huge," says a senior Labour MP who's been knocking on voters' doors in recent days. But these elections aren
May – UK politics live Good morning. **Wes Streeting**, the health secretary, is publishing a revised women’s health strategy for England today. As **Andrew Gregory** reports, the strategy implicitly accepts that women have been
May's Senedd election](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c7vj3650rrvt). The last government, run by Labour, said in April: "We are committed to ensuring that our significant investment in NHS education and training is matched by meaningful employment
Labour figure interpreted this as a sign of fraying loyalties, and said "serious cabinet ministers are not prepared to defend [the PM] or sully themselves". Another MP said: "They are looking for life rafts. They
May. The provisional stats out on Thursday are for the month of March. Without them, the government would not have been able to show whether its target could be met before the election. Labour
May, which are expected to be disastrous for his party. All that said, Starmer is not totally isolated. Unlike some prime ministers, whose connections in parliament felt largely transactional, there are people in Starmer
Labour MP called on Starmer to quit. 2. ***Middle East*** | [Iranian forces seized two ships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/iranian-forces-ships-seized-strait-of-hormuz-us-peace-talks) in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades