Starmer rolls out red carpet for genocide, reads the front-page headline of The National, a Scottish daily, as anger mounts over the British prime minister's meeting with Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president. Herzog is understood to have arrived in the UK on Tuesday. He will meet the premier, Keir Starmer, on Wednesday and is reportedly planning to speak at the Chatham House think tank later in the day. He is expected to leave on Friday.
I saw how challenging reshuffles can be for PM and party when I was chief whip under Rishi Sunak. They tend to make more enemies than friends, even when they are carefully planned and executed. Worse, the friends they make were probably your friends anyway, and the enemies you make are the ones who used to be your friends. In other words, there are only downsides.
If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic, a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, I will scream. No need for shrieks. The prime minister's No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn't so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling.
Starmer's approval rating remains low at -41%, down 5 points. His net score fell on attributes like 'strong leader' (-40%) and 'represents what most people think' (-47%).
Starmer emphasized that some figures concerning the public finances, particularly the projected shortfall, are not recognized by him and indicated a need to prioritize living standards.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) is set to intensify pressure on Sir Keir Starmer, threatening to compel a parliamentary vote on recognition of Palestinian statehood by the UK.
Rachael Maskell stated, "Of course I brought to parliament the voices of my constituents, in fact I told stories within the debate about their fragile mental health and the implications of losing money and the reforms would have on them."