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              Keir Starmer

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Labour party UK
                Starmer met ousted Awami League figure last month

                UK Labour party has long ties with ‘Kennedys of Bangladesh’ despite former regime’s alleged corruption and violence

                UK prime minister Keir Starmer with Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, the ousted mayor of the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet, in Glasgow in December
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                UK Government
                Starmer aide to receive dividends from corporate advisory firm Hakluyt

                Varun Chandra still holds majority of his previous stake in the group despite joining Downing Street in July

                Varun Chandra
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                The State of Britain
                The hole in Keir Starmer’s plan for the NHS Premium content

                Also in this newsletter: demand for special educational needs provision doubles

                Keir Starmer speaking at Epsom hospital
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                UK politics
                Truss lawyers tell Starmer to stop saying she ‘crashed the economy’

                Legal letter warns prime minister to ‘cease and desist’ from claims about her brief tenure

                Keir Starmer and Liz Truss leaving Palace of Westminster, London in September 2022
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Robert Shrimsley
                Musk’s grooming onslaught shows politics needs a new playbook

                Online distortions obscure the true nature of public outrage — democracies must adapt to the age of X

                Illustration of seven silhouettes stood behind a young girl
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Inside Politics
                The key question underlying Badenoch’s call for grooming gangs probe

                Tory leader says there was a failure to ‘join dots’, taking a different view to police on how to address issue

                Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Elon Musk
                Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election

                Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                UK crime
                MPs reject calls by Tories for national inquiry into UK grooming gangs

                Government uses its Commons majority to dismiss Conservatives’ demand backed by Elon Musk

                Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, with safeguarding minister Jess Phillips far right
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                UK crime
                Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn

                Keir Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for failing to implement 2022 Jay review recommendations

              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                UK crime
                UK minister accuses Musk of endangering her life

                Jess Phillips hits back at tech billionaire after he attacks her handling of grooming scandal

                Jess Phillips MP
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                Starmer hits back at Musk over comments on historic sex abuse cases

                UK prime minister says ‘line has been crossed’ as Emmanuel Macron also expresses alarm about billionaire’s interventions

                UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech in Epson, Surrey, on Monday
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                National Health Service
                ‘Evolution not revolution’: Can the private sector help cut NHS waiting lists?

                Keir Starmer has vowed to make better use of existing capacity to reduce massive backlog

                A montage of Keir Starmer, a chart and the NHS logo
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                NHS England
                Starmer launches private sector push to cut NHS waiting lists in England

                Government also aims to increase access to local diagnostic centres

                Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a healthcare provider in Surrey, to deliver remarks on reducing NHS wait times on January 6, 2025 in Epsom, United Kingdom.
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                Tulip Siddiq
                Tulip Siddiq refers herself to government adviser on ministerial standards

                Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says he retains confidence in the City minister

                Tulip Siddiq
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                ExplainerElon Musk
                Why has Elon Musk reignited debate over the UK rape gangs scandal?

                Latest intervention by close ally of Donald Trump puts Keir Starmer’s role under the spotlight

                A montage showing Elon Musk and Keir Starmer, and the logo of X
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Donald Trump
                Trump attacks UK’s North Sea policy as ‘very big mistake’

                Post on Truth Social platform is latest anti-Labour salvo from incoming US administration

                Donald Trump speaking at a campaign town hall in Philadelphia in October 14 2024, in front of a screen with the slogan ‘Drill baby drill’
              • Friday, 3 January, 2025
                Inside Politics
                High-stakes tests and threats to watch as UK politics heats up

                After a slow start Keir Starmer must now grip both policy and polling pressures, with May elections pivotal for his opponents

                Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves visiting University Hospital Coventry
              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                Elon Musk
                Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates

                Tech billionaire claims PM failed to tackle grooming scandal when he was head of prosecution service

                Elon Musk
              • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
                ExplainerUK politics
                NHS, education, housebuilding . . .  Labour’s progress so far and its plans for 2025

                First six months of new year will prove crucial to Keir Starmer’s ambition to drive ‘change’

                Sir Keir Starmer
              • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
                UK politics
                Starmer promises year of ‘rebuilding’ for UK in 2025

                Prime minister points to early progress despite rocky start to government

                Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                UK politics
                Starmer must make 2025 ‘year of delivery’, says union boss

                TUC chief Paul Nowak calls for prime minister to set out road map on public services and see off populist right

                TUC general secretary Paul Nowak
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Small-boat crossings to UK rise by fifth but remain below European peers

                Starmer has vowed to crack down on criminal gangs bringing migrants across English Channel

                Migrants board a smuggler’s inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                UK tax
                Lawyers question Starmer’s ‘misleading’ £3mn farm tax claim

                Headline inheritance duty exemption is difficult to achieve and may involve splitting ownership of the land

                British farmers hold placards saying ‘Starmer the farmer harmer’ and Stop family farms tax’ during a rally in London
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Labour party UK
                ‘Waste of time’: how Starmer fumbled his first months of power

                Plunging poll ratings have sapped morale as UK Labour government crawls towards Christmas break

                The decision to cut winter fuel payments has hit the popularity of Keir Starmer, centre, with Sue Gray, right, eventually forced out
              • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
                UK trade
                Starmer must agree youth mobility pact with EU, says business group

                British Chambers of Commerce makes 13 recommendations ahead of ‘reset’ talks on trading relationship next year

                UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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