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Starmer-Streeting coffee summit lasts 16 minutes
Pity Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. The embattled Prime Minister must get through a King’s Speech against the backdrop…
Will bond markets ‘have to fall into line’ with Andy Burnham?
Reality Check verdict: false You know things are hotting up in Westminster when reporters start unironically using the word ‘febrile’.…
Labour needs Europe strike a deal on ECHR migration reform
It might seem odd, amid the domestic political crisis currently engulfing the Labour party, to turn one’s eyes to Chișinău,…
The inevitable horror of an Ed Miliband premiership
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who…
Food shortages don’t worry the Falklands
Rumour had it that the Falkland Islands were running out of food. There was panic, it was said, and people…
You’ll miss Keir Starmer when he’s gone
You will miss Sir Keir Starmer when he has gone. I hear you say that you will do no such…
The London school where pupils are fighting back against striking teachers
Moan all you like about Gen Z, but some of today’s youngsters put adults to shame. Take the pupils at…
Keir Starmer has one card left to play
As calls for Sir Keir Starmer’s head grow ever louder among Labour MPs, the British Prime Minister is digging his…
Trump is in the mood to do a deal with China
As President Trump travels to China today, his original plans for the visit have been upended. He wanted to arrive as…
America’s Trump card in China
The Trump administration has released a list of CEOs who will be accompanying the president to his meeting in China…
Starmer should stay
Sir Keir Starmer remains dug in as Prime Minister, having told the cabinet: ‘Bring it on if you think you’re…
Zack Polanski’s council tax blunder shows he isn’t fit to lead the Greens
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the…
Jess Phillips’s resignation will be particularly painful for Starmer
All three of the resignation letters from ministers who have quit government in the past couple of hours will be…
Keir Starmer is done
This morning’s cabinet meeting was one for the ages. At 9.30 a.m., British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was greeted by…
Louise Haigh’s economic plan would hasten Britain’s decline
The government is on the brink of collapse, ministers are openly fighting for the succession, and the bond vigilantes are…
Keir Starmer’s ‘chaos’ hypocrisy
It’s fair to say the reset speech didn’t quite do the trick. As the number of Labour MPs calling on…
Andy Burnham is no saviour
The outcome of the Prime Minister’s make-or-break speech yesterday morning was never really in any doubt, was it? It’s break.…
Could Reform take Greater Manchester?
As the Prime Minister’s reset speech seems to have failed to reassure Labour MPs, all eyes are once again on…
Mary Seacole is celebrated for all the wrong reasons
Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead until…
Joe Biden’s memoir will humiliate him
Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For…
Why non-Jews didn’t come to the Extinguish Antisemitism rally
The internecine fights before the Extinguish Antisemitism rally in Whitehall are typical of British Jews, who tend to only speak…
Keir Starmer’s position is looking increasingly untenable
Things are moving very fast in Westminster this evening. More than 60 Labour MPs are publicly calling on the Prime…
The charts that show Angela Rayner is wrong about Britain
Reality Check verdict: the wrong prescription Yesterday, Angela Rayner called for a path to be cleared for Andy Burnham to…
Ministers ponder resignation
More than 50 backbenchers have now called for Sir Keir Starmer to resign, despite his rousing rallying cry for unity…
Burnham backer’s hypocrisy revealed
‘Would you give up your seat for him?’ On #BBCBreakfast Labour MP Paula Barker said Keir Starmer needs to step…
