Morgan McSweeney has no one to blame but himself
Emily Thornberry tore the Irishman to shreds
ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
Starmer relies on fed-up but not mutinous MPs
Judgement day looks survivable for the Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer will not go gently
Keir Starmer’s determination to carry on blows up the short-lived “orderly transition” theory
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Is Andy Burnham actually the answer?
The barriers to his coronation are practical, not political
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Would Keir Starmer agree to step down after May?
As the cabinet starts to give up, those close to him still say Starmer wouldn’t leave without a fight
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Does anything remain of Starmerism?
Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport
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PMQs: Labour MPs are losing patience with Starmer
Both Kemi Badenoch and Ellie Chowns urged the Prime Minister to resign in this week’s session
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Keir Starmer is all alone
The clamour is growing: he cannot do the job
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The Mandelson affair is stripping this government bare
Its origins lie in Keir Starmer’s inability to control a restless world
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Half of Londoners are considering going Green in May
Exclusive polling from Ipsos shows the Green Party eating into Labour’s vote
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Olly Robbins reveals “constant pressure” from No 10 over Mandelson
Downing Street had a “generally dismissive attitude” to vetting the disgraced ambassador
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The Great British defence con
Military insiders are trying to bully the government into dependency on an erratic United States
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Nine things we learned from Starmer’s Mandelson statement
Opposition parties are smelling blood
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Keir Starmer vs the civil service
The PM’s battle with Whitehall is a delayed reckoning
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Should Keir Starmer resign?
And would Andy Burnham replace the Prime Minister if he went?
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“Lol. Bad”: How Labour MPs feel about Keir Starmer
The Mandeslon scandal is causing consternation in the PLP – again.
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Keir Starmer is angry again
The PM is leading the chorus of fury against his own government
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In Westminster, all eyes are on Olly Robbins
The Mandelson crisis is growing
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Keir Starmer is right to put Brexit in the bin
Brexiteer complaints are wrongheaded and disheartening
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What we learned at PMQs: George Robertson has done Keir Starmer no favours
Kemi Badenoch used all six of her questions to hammer Starmer on the Labour peer’s criticisms about defence spending
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