#keir-starmer

#keir-starmer

Starmer's trip is aimed at building on a UK-led gathering of military planners to discuss how the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened in practice.

Starmer's most costly quarter for foreign travel occurred in the last three months of 2025, with eight trips totaling £1.2 million, including a £413,000 visit to Brazil.

In my view, the biggest mistake we've made is abolishing the Rwanda plan. Despite the legal challenges, it represented our best hope for reducing illegal crossings.

for the first time in 18 months, Star Sports has staked Labour as most likely to win the general election. Keir Starmer's party have been in the ascendency in the market, said their head of betting, William Kedjanyi, shortening into 13/8 from 15/8 in the past week to supplant Reform at the head of the betting.

It was a dark week for the prime minister, with the departure of his longtime chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who had become a deeply divisive figure and who took the hit for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite his links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But last Thursday morning had for a change been dominated by a different story.

If Labour wins in what has been an over-50% solid red-voting area since the second world war, that will calm nerves on its febrile back (and front) benches. If Labour loses, heavy blame will fall on Keir Starmer for fixing the party's ruling NEC to bar Andy Burnham's selection, ensuring he couldn't challenge for the leadership without a Westminster seat.

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Keir Starmer has bought some more time, there is a modest bounce in his polling, and he has had the well-timed fortune of the Munich security conference. His call there for the remaking of western alliances and taking the initiative on European defence cooperation has fumigated the air a little of the sense of imminent demise that has been swirling around him. But it will probably be a temporary hiatus.