Keir Starmer

Trump’s threats against Russia are a charade meant to buy Putin time

Worldview: Trump basically gave Putin 50 days’ protection from new sanctions, says Phillips Payson O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland

Kneecap will face no further action over Glastonbury performance, police say

The trio led festival crowds in chants of ‘f**k Keir Starmer’ during late June appearance

Afghan data leak: Panic, a press gag and a secret relocation scheme

In the News podcast: UK taxpayers learn of multi-billion pound bill for massive Afghan relocation

German and UK leaders sign mutual defence pact as US steps back

Treaty includes a pledge by both countries to regard a threat against one as a threat against the other

UK move to lower voting age to 16 unlikely to be in place for Northern Irish elections

First Minister Michelle O’Neill says UK law change is a ‘step forward for democracy’ but DUP opposes lowering voting age

New rows over old divisions in Labour before Westminster MPs take summer break

British prime minister Keir Starmer attempts to reassert authority but risks reopening wounds by suspending rebel MPs

Starmer and Martin to hold talks following Labour revolt over plan to abort Troubles Legacy Act

British prime minister was reminded that he ‘looked victims’ families in the eye’ and made them a promise

Labour accuses Tories of ‘total incompetence’ over injunction and secret Afghan resettlement scheme

In 2022 the UK’s ministry of defence accidentally leaked names of 18,700 Afghans who had helped British forces

UK’s Labour government facing backbench revolt over plan to repeal Troubles Legacy Act

Veterans minister said to have threatened to resign over plan to revoke immunity for British soldiers and others

September dates for Donald Trump’s UK state visit confirmed

Trump will be hosted by King Charles at banquet during three-day visit, but address to parliament unlikely

Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel

There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate

Ireland’s €156bn tax windfall: Where has it gone?

Most of the excess receipts from corporate tax have disappeared into the budgetary ether, in some cases to overruns in Health

Kneecap concert advertisement is banned from London Underground

Transport for London rejects poster featuring likeness of a balaclava, deeming advert as ‘likely to cause offence’

UK and France agree one in, one out migrant returns scheme

French president blames Brexit for making it harder to tackle illegal migration

Oasis: You can’t write. You don’t care. No wonder you’ve gone a long way

Politics will age you faster than even the most rock’n’roll lifestyle

Starmer pokes fun at Farage’s expense, but Reform leader may have the last laugh as migration looms large in UK-France summit

Britain’s prime minister badly needs an asylum seeker returns deal with France

Breaking down in tears at the scene was mortifying. It was also the only sane response

Rachel Reeves has been castigated for crying, but sometimes tears are the only way to react rationally

Small boat migration, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and US trade dominate discussion as Emmanuel Macron visits UK

French president begins three-day state visit by meeting King Charles and addressing MPs

The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy

Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity

UK desperate to stay inside fiscal rules, Ireland couldn’t care less

After big U-turns, Starmer and Reeves have boxed themselves into a corner

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