Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg BBC Sir Keir Starmer achieved what many sage minds in Westminster believed was impossible. Labour smashed itself to bits in 2019. But Sir Keir put the party back together and swept back to power with an epic majority five years later. Yet, turn on the radio or glance at...
Sir Keir Starmer has said his government is in “a battle for the soul of the country” with Reform UK, as he set out new measures to tackle illegal migration. During a speech announcing a new digital ID scheme, the prime minister said the “defining political choice of our times” would be between the centre-left...
The Electoral Commission has said it will not reopen an investigation into Labour Together, the think tank previously led by the prime minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. In 2021, the commission investigated and fined Labour Together for late and inaccurate reporting of its donations. Earlier this week the Conservatives urged the commission to open...
Ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell has been readmitted as a Labour MP alongside Apsana Bagum, after a year-long ban for voting against the government on the two-child benefit cap. They were among seven left-wing MPs who, days after Labour’s 2024 landslide, backed an SNP motion to scrap the cap – which prevents almost all parents from...
PA Media Sir Keir Starmer has publicly acknowledged “where some on the left went wrong” on immigration, saying that his party needs to tackle “every aspect of the problem”. Writing in the Telegraph, the prime minister said that Labour was being forced to counter the “rise of the populist right”, noting the increasing popularity of...
Jennifer McKiernanpolitical reporter, Georgia Robertspolitical correspondent and Henry Zeffmanchief political correspondent AFP via Getty Images Andy Burnham has said MPs have privately called on him to challenge Sir Keir Starmer to become prime minister. In the Daily Telegraph the Manchester mayor, who is not currently an MP, said he was not “plotting to get back”...