How David Cameron's return to the government as Foreign Secretary could mean a fashion comeback for wife Samantha's brand Cefinn

1 week, 2 days ago

Keir Starmer admits ‘much more’ to do after difficult first six months in No 10

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Keir Starmer has said there is still “so much more” …

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1 week, 2 days ago

The new year’s resolutions Labour must make for Britons in 2025

The Independent

Almost six months on from a decisive election victory, and having navigated some “choppy” moments since, as the prime minister calls them, Sir Keir Starmer is right to sound a note of humility in his new year message. And that for many people, it’s hard to think about the future when you spend all of your time fighting to get …

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1 week, 2 days ago

The winners and losers of British politics in 2024

The Independent

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak feature in the lists of the six winners and six losers in British politics in 2024, of course, but so do some of the backroom operators who helped them to victory and defeat. What’s more, the splintering of party loyalties meant that a single election produced several winners, as the Liberal Democrats, Reform and the …

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1 week, 5 days ago

The winners and losers in British politics 2024

The Independent

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak feature in the lists of the six winners and six losers in British politics in 2024, of course, but so do some of the backroom operators who helped them to victory and defeat. What’s more, the splintering of party loyalties meant that a single election produced several winners, as the Liberal Democrats, Reform and the …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Can Kemi Badenoch turn the Tories’ fortunes around?

The Independent

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has insisted she will not be rushed into policy positions, claiming there is no “quick fix” following the party’s historic defeat in July’s general election. Nearer to the next general election she will no doubt be pushed by circumstances into making some definite policy commitments, but they too may be vague and hedged around with caveats …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

STEPHEN GLOVER: Beware Nigel... looking like Trump's lap dog - out-poodling even Blair - will alienate lots of British voters

Daily Mail

Will Nigel Farage be our next prime minister? It’s no longer fanciful to imagine Reform challenging – or even eclipsing – the Tories in next year’s local elections and then at the general election, which Sir Keir Starmer will presumably delay for as long as possible, unless he is first led away by men in white coats. Nigel Farage with …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

New top mandarin issues stark warning to Whitehall on first day in the job

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The new cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald has delivered a stark …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Keir Starmer proved the crystal ball wrong this year – what has 2025 in store?

The Independent

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

With its energy policy, the government cannot afford to say one thing and do another

The Independent

More than most senior members of the government, Ed Miliband should understand the importance of winning the arguments as a prerequisite for political success. The vibe from the energy companies and the experts is that higher energy prices are here to stay and Mr Miliband hasn’t done very much to lift the mood so far as bills are concerned. There …

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Six pledges to save Starmer? PM will plead with Brits to judge him on higher living standards, lower NHS waits, 1.5m new homes and more police in 'reset' speech TODAY… but NO target on cutting immigra

Daily Mail

Keir Starmer will bid to 'reset' his struggling government today as he lays out goals for voters to judge him by. He has also been accused of sidelining Labour's flagship manifesto pledge to deliver the fastest growing economy in the G7 - which looks doomed to failure as the US and Canada are surging ahead. Keir Starmer is using a …

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1 month ago

With his ‘great reset’, the prime minister must administer an injection of confidence and charisma

The Independent

Is “more bobbies on the beat” really what passes for “a big idea” for Sir Keir Starmer’s ambitious “decade of renewal”? An unkind observer might draw an unfavourable comparison with the time when John Major, towards the end of a long spell of Conservative rule, was scrabbling around for initiatives that would have instant voter appeal and came up with …

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1 month ago

Labour considers political donation cap amid fears of Musk $100m handout to Reform UK

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

Is Keir Starmer just copying Tony Blair with his ‘measurable milestones’?

The Independent

The prime minister, after a “choppy” first few months in office, is promising to implement a “plan for change” and to introduce “measurable milestones” by which the performance of the government may be judged. That’s because the five specified “missions” are envisaged to take place over a “decade of renewal”, whereas the six prospective “milestones” will be achieved over the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Starmer’s ‘Plan for Change’ will improve lives of working people, No 10 claims

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A reset can't disguise PM's lack of vision

Daily Mail

Throughout the election campaign, Sir Keir Starmer assured us Labour had a plan. After a litany of mis-steps, broken promises and a Budget that united most of the country in anger and recrimination, Sir Keir is to ‘reset’ his hapless administration with a speech on Thursday. After a litany of mis-steps, broken promises and a Budget that united most of …

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1 month, 1 week ago

What is Keir Starmer’s ‘plan for change’ and will it reverse Labour’s fortunes?

The Independent

Sir Keir Starmer’s time in government was summed up on Sunday by Sky’s Trevor Phillips as “the Taylor Swift tickets, the suits, the dresses, the glasses, the No 10 passes, the chief of staff sacked inside six months”. open image in gallery Keir Starmer will set out his ‘plan for change’ on Thursday The Independent looks at what the PM’s …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Starmer Pledges ‘Plan for Change’ in Bid to Reset Government

Live Mint

-- Prime Minister Keir Starmer will spell out a set of targets on the UK economy, health care and crime over the coming week as he seeks to reset his fledgling administration following a turbulent return to power for Labour. The British premier will unveil a “Plan for Change” setting out “measurable milestones,” adding flesh to the bones of the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Keir Starmer's ratings slump with more than half of the public disapproving of his performance - as PM plots a major 'reset' of his stumbling premiership just five months after entering No10

Daily Mail

Sir Keir Starmer has seen an eight-point drop in his approval ratings with more than half of the public disapproving of the Prime Minister's job performance, a new poll has revealed. The speech will be seen as an attempt by Sir Keir to get his stumbling premiership back on track following the widespread anger at Labour's tax plans and his …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Top pollster warns Starmer will struggle to convince public with his ‘plan for change’

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

Starmer Promises ‘Plan for Change’ in Bid to Reset UK Government

Live Mint

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will spell out a set of targets on the UK economy, health care and crime over the coming week as he seeks to reset his fledgling administration following a turbulent return to power for Labour. The British premier will unveil a “Plan for Change” setting out “measurable milestones,” adding flesh to the bones of the five …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Blairites are in despair over Keir Starmer’s flailing leadership

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's chaotic government now resembles nothing more than a hapless bunch of student politicians... with their adolescent posturing, tiresome virtue-signalling, love of freebies and a

Daily Mail

Louise Haigh’s resignation as Transport Secretary after it was revealed she’d once been convicted of fraud – and lost her job with a major insurance company over it – has crystallised something I’ve been mulling over for some time. The ethos of Keir Starmer’s project is more redolent of student politics – with all the juvenile posturing, opportunism and adolescent …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Setback for UK’s Starmer as transport secretary Louise Haigh pleads guilty to criminal offence, resigns

Firstpost

Her resignation, the first from Starmer’s top team of ministers since winning a landslide election victory in July, came after media reports that she had been convicted and given a conditional discharge in 2014 for what she described as a “mistake” Britain’s transport minister Louise Haigh has resigned after pleading guilty years ago to an offence in connection with misleading …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

DAN HODGES: Globetrotting Keir Starmer needs to get his posterior back into Downing Street to deal with all the crises piling up on his watch

Daily Mail

At least Keir Starmer didn’t say, ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Although to be fair to Jim Callaghan, he didn’t say it either. On returning from a Caribbean summit in 1979 to a nation in the grip of a blizzard and industrial chaos, the Prime Minister fatefully declared: ’I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you’re …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

The Return of the Blairites: Keir Starmer is right to use their experience

The Independent

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Britain should move past ‘special relationship’ with US, Lord Mandelson claims

The Independent

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Cop29: Activists look to Britain for climate leadership as Trump’s win casts long shadow over crucial UN talks

The Independent

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2 months ago

New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch names her defeated rival Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary, while Priti Patel becomes shadow foreign secretary and Mel Stride is shadow chancellor as she puts to

Daily Mail

Kemi Badenoch has started appointing her top team as the new Tory leader insists she can defeat Labour at the next election. Ms Badenoch has made Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary in a stunning comeback for the former Cabinet minister, while Mel Stride becomes shadow chancellor. She also tonight named her defeated rival Robert Jenrick, who she beat in the …

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2 months ago

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Why a Tory revival can't come too soon?

Daily Mail

The hurly-burly's done, the battle lost and won, and the Conservatives finally have a new leader. Kemi Badenoch is relatively inexperienced but clearly has great strength of character and will Just weeks after winning a massive majority, Labour is behind the Tories in the polls – a damning indictment of Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘changed’ party The road back to power …

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2 months ago

New Tory leader faces budget challenge

China Daily

By Julian Shea in London | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-04 03:04 The British government has made an immediate challenge to the new leader of the opposition Conservative Party by telling her to back its plans for increased borrowing and taxation announced in last Wednesday's budget. In his parliamentary response to the budget speech made on Oct 30, one of his …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Why David Cameron and his Tony Blair-loving Notting Hill clique are the REAL ones to blame for this year's crushing Tory defeat, writes LIZ TRUSS

Daily Mail

I joined the Conservative Party in 1997 and went to that autumn's conference in Blackpool after our then historic election defeat by Tony Blair's Labour Party. Liz Truss joined the Conservative Party in 1997 and went to that autumn's conference in Blackpool after the Party's historic election defeat by Tony Blair 's Labour Party. The two former Prime Ministers are …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Kemi Badenoch’s victory shows the Tories’ survival instinct has finally kicked in

The Independent

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2 months, 1 week ago

The daunting challenge for new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch: Recovering from worst EVER election result... with just 121 MPs and Nigel Farage waiting in the wings

Daily Mail

The bitter battle for the Tory crown has been going on for nearly four months. And the party suffered its worst ever election defeat in July, returning just 121 MPs as a swathe of big beasts fell to Labour and the Lib Dems. Nigel Farage, now finally in Parliament alongside a small group of fellow MPs, has made no secret …

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2 months, 1 week ago

‘Let’s get down to business’: Kemi Badenoch vows to renew Britain after winning Tory leadership race

The Telegraph

It is “time to get down to business” and “renew” the Conservatives and Britain, Kemi Badenoch said in her acceptance speech. Our second is no less important, it is to prepare over the course of the next few years for government, to ensure that by the time of the election we have not just a clear set of Conservative pledges …

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2 months, 1 week ago

It's not all bad news! Britain's 'most hated mum' who faked depression to get an NHS nose job and charged her family £150-a-head for Christmas dinner wants to quit Britain for the US after Rachel Reev

Daily Mail

A mum-of-four who has been dubbed 'Britain's most hated woman' says she is preparing to move to the US after the budget left her scared for her children's future. Britain's 'most hated mum' Carla Belucci said she is scared for her children's future after the budget Former Glamour model Carla is preparing to move to the US and believes Donald …

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2 months, 1 week ago

This huge Budget gamble by Starmer and Reeves rests on one ambition – economic growth

The Independent

The most important relationship at the top of British politics is that between a prime minister and their chancellor. Sir Keir has been unstinting in his support for Ms Reeves, most recently in a prelude speech to her Budget, in which he warned the country – and, more pointedly, critics in his own party – that they must “embrace the …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Keir Starmer suffers ‘unprecedented’ collapse in popularity for new PM

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour has made yet another misstep — and now Keir Starmer has a Trump problem

The Independent

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Will David Lammy’s trip to Beijing fix the UK’s China problem?

The Independent

For the first Labour government in 14 years, the home front quickly turned problematic, what with street riots in the first month and the supposed shock-horror discovery of a huge hole in the public finances. During a forensic interrogation at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sunak left Starmer searching his notes for an adequate response to an opposition leader who seemed better …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

David Cameron planned sanctions on Israeli ministers – would it have worked?

The Independent

In a remarkably candid interview, David Cameron revealed that, as foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s government, he was preparing to place sanctions on two members of the Israeli cabinet in protest at the conduct of the war in Gaza. Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, represent the more extreme nationalist end of opinion within Benjamin …

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3 months ago

What’s next in the Tory leadership race after Tom Tugendhat’s exit?

The Independent

As Tom Tugendhat is knocked out and the Conservative leadership election goes into its final stages, the prospects of the frontrunners have been transformed. Originally favourite, she may not even make it to the final two names in the members’ ballot, given that most of the Tugendhat vote will transfer to James Cleverly. On the basis of past experience in …

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3 months ago

The Budget will give the prime minister a chance to correct his mistakes

The Independent

Wisely, as it turns out, Sir Keir Starmer and his team didn’t make a fuss about their first “hundred days” in office after they won the general election in July. Without such a landmark event to lay out priorities and set the “narrative”, the argument runs, Sir Keir – via the chancellor, Rachel Reeves – has been left without a …

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3 months ago

Sue Gray quits as Starmer resets his top team in bid to regain control over chaos

The Independent

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3 months ago

Tory leadership candidates fail to inspire as new poll shows Starmer support holds firm

The Independent

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3 months ago

Cabinet rebellion over Rachel Reeves’s cut to foreign aid budget

The Telegraph

Rachel Reeves’s plan to cut almost £2 billion from the foreign aid budget has sparked a Cabinet backlash, The Telegraph can reveal. Aid organisations, including the UK arm of the charity run by David Miliband, have warned that Ms Reeves’s plans will see the aid budget fall to a 17-year low and are lobbying ministers over the issue. ‘Iron grip’ …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Tory contenders dip into Blair’s playbook with ‘New Conservative Party’ revamp plan

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

Rish Sunak will not move to California as he plans Blair-style role in British politics

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

Ed Miliband faces growing legal threat over pylons roll-out

The Telegraph

Ed Miliband is facing a growing legal threat from a string of councils over his decision to unleash a wave of electricity pylons across Britain. It comes after the Energy Secretary recently vowed to “take on the blockers” who oppose the Government’s clean energy proposals, claiming that defeating Nimbys on net zero was a matter of “national security”. “He has …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

BORIS JOHNSON to reveal what he 'really thinks' about Sunak and Gove in bombshell memoir serialised by the Mail

Daily Mail

Boris Johnson today reveals he will use his sensational new memoir to set out what he ‘really thinks’ about Rishi Sunak – and ‘how and why I learned to keep my old friend Michael Gove firmly in the wing mirror’. In a short video to promote it – and in typically colourful style – Mr Johnson promises to spill the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Keir Starmer promises to revive UK as he dismisses ‘silly’ freebies stories

The Independent

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