Sir Keir Starmer ended his first week as Prime Minister as popular as Boris Johnson was at the height of the vaccine rollout, a poll has found. Some 36% of the public told pollster Ipsos they thought Sir Keir was doing a good job as Prime Minister, the highest ratingContinue Reading
Volodymyr Zelensky will address an extraordinary meeting of the UK Cabinet on Friday as he becomes the first official visitor to Downing Street under Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. The Ukrainian president, who is making his third visit to the UK, will also be the first foreign leader to address theContinue Reading
More than 6,000 votes cast in a London constituency for the general election were missed off due to a “spreadsheet issue”. Wandsworth Council has apologised after revealing it had mistakenly failed to include 6,558 votes in the declaration of the election result in Putney. The first published result had shownContinue Reading
Keir Starmer has scored his first major international success after the French and the Irish hailed his plan for a new era in relations with Europe. The Irish prime minister described the election of a new Labour government as a potential “gamechanger” for the bloc. Echoing Sir Keir’s own languageContinue Reading
Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European leaders to channel Winston Churchill’s “bravery” in the fight against Russian aggression. The Ukrainian leader made his call as he spoke in the former prime minister’s birthplace, Blenheim Palace, during only his third visit to the UK since Russia’s full-scale invasion. It is his firstContinue Reading
Labour MP says he’d swim through vomit to scrap two-child benefit cap Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sir Keir Starmer is seeking to “fireContinue Reading
The UK government’s failures to properly prepare for a pandemic are expected to be laid bare on Thursday as the UK Covid-19 Inquiry publishes its first report. Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett will report on how well the UK was able to face a deadly outbreak in the run-up toContinue Reading
Labour MP John McDonnell urged Sir Keir Starmer to scrap the two-child benefit cap and “lift 300,000 children out of poverty”. Addressing the Commons on Wednesday (17 July), the Hayes and Harlington MP said: “I was in this House when the Tories introduced it, it was introduced as part ofContinue Reading
The new Labour government confirmed its commitment to uphold plans for a UK smoking ban in the King’s Speech on Wednesday. The measure, which will raise the legal smoking age by one year, every year, means anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be able to purchaseContinue Reading
Labour has announced sweeping new rules on technology – though not widely-expected new laws on artificial intelligence. Many within the technology and AI industries had expected that the King’s Speech would bring the introduction of new regulation and governance over artificial intelligence. But it included only passing references to theContinue Reading
