Keir Starmer pushes Israel for ceasefire after party sheds Muslim votes
Keir Starmer has pushed with Israel's Prime Minister for a ceasefire in Gaza in one of his first international phone calls since assuming office.
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‘Managing the campaign come down: Labour still needs you, activists and staff’
I lost my job when we went into government in 1997. I’d spent two years working as a very junior adviser to David Blunkett and the Shadow Education and Employment team.
‘The left can’t sit this out. We must stop austerity, purges and pandering to right’
After 14 years of austerity and privatisation, the Tories are out. We now have a Labour Government that has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape Britain’s economy in favour of the many, rather than the interests of an established…
Jonathan Reynolds: Labour not ‘harking back to any era’ as Alexander and Smith return and Blair speaks out
The Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said Labour is not "harking back to any era", after former Prime Minister Tony Blair issued his advice to the incoming government and two New Labour-era ministers returned to frontline…
‘Attlee won in ’45 but lost in ’51. His time in office carries a warning for Starmer’
Whatever happens next, Labour’s 2024 election victory will go down in history along with its small handful of earlier landslide triumphs. The most fondly remembered by Labour people is, of course, that of 1945 when the party won 49.7% of…
Revealed: How many battleground election targets did Labour win and lose?
Labour won the vast majority of constituencies it had labelled as “battleground areas” at the general election.
Starmer pledges ‘raw honesty’ and does not commit to reverse two-child cap
Keir Starmer has pledged to approach the problems facing the country with a "raw honesty", saying his government will have to take "tough decisions", as he again said he could not commit to axing the two-child benefit cap.
Keir Starmer news conference: Live updates and stream as PM faces press
Keir Starmer is set to hold his first news conference addressing the nation as Prime Minister today, following his historic landslide general election victory.
David Blunkett: ‘Rejoice – but tough choices loom handling so many new MPs’
Rejoice, celebrate, find a sense of relief and if, I'm honest, apprehension. We've actually won!
Patrick Vallance made a minister in Keir Starmer’s government
Sir Patrick Vallance, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser who regularly appeared on Britain's TV screens for Covid briefings at the height of lockdowns, has been appointed as a minister in Keir Starmer's government. Vallance will…
Labour cabinet: Lisa Nandy returns to more senior post after recent demotion
Wigan MP and former leadership contender Lisa Nandy has been appointed a Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport – despite being demoted in the shadow cabinet last year.
Read Keir Starmer’s first speech as Prime Minister outside Downing Street in full
Thank you. Good afternoon. I have just returned from Buckingham Palace, where I accepted an invitation from His Majesty the King to form the next government of this great nation. I want to thank the outgoing Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. His…