Keir Starmer

'Give Jeremy back the whip', McDonnell urges Starmer

Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has urged Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer to restore the party whip to Jeremy Corbyn, saying his predecessor could be "one of his best campaigners". The Labour..

Keir Starmer outlines his vision for a Labour government

Sir Keir Starmer says he would increase minimum wage and sick pay, and ensure stronger workers' rights under a Labour government. The opposition leader also promises a ban on the so-called zero hour..

Labour outline 'principles' of alternative social care plan

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer outlines the "principles" of his alternative social care plan, saying Johnson's levy "hammers" working people. He says care must be provided at home, be aimed at being..

Starmer labels government's social care plan a 'mess'

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has lambasted the government’s plan for social care as a “poorly through-through mess” as he spoke at the Local Government Association Labour Leaders..

Sir Keir Starmer lays flowers at 9/11 memorial

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has joined mourners at the September 11 Memorial Garden in London’s Grosvenor Square, where he lay flowers to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. Report by Buseld...

Johnson accuses Labour of spouting 'minestrone of nonsense'

Boris Johnson accuses Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer of spouting a "minestrone of nonsense" after being quizzed about clearing the NHS backlog during Prime Minister's Questions. Johnson also said the..

Labour: Care workers to get tax rise, not pay rise

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer says the Conservative plan for paying for social care will see a tax rise for care workers but not a pay rise. Boris Johnson claims the Labour party proposed a rise in..

Labour: Tories can no longer claim to be 'party of low tax'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the 1.25% rise in National Insurance is a tax rise which breaks a promise the Conservatives made at the 2019 election and they can never again claim to the "party of..

PM’s social care plan ‘a sticking plaster over gaping wounds’

Prime minister Boris Johnson’s plans for social care reform were branded ‘a sticking plaster over gaping wounds’ by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Starmer says PM is ‘incapable of international leadership’

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons that Boris Johnson “let down” the UK’s armed forces during the Afghanistan crisis. Report by Burnsla. Like us on Facebook at..

Starmer on Afghanistan: ‘We must help those left behind’

Labour Leader Keir Starmer has called for an immediate plan to help refugees and British nationals stuck in Afghanistan. Report by Burnsla. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow..

Starmer: PM 'bears heavy responsibility' for Afghanistan

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer lays the blame for Afghanistan scenario on the Prime Minister. Highlighting Johnson's failure to use numerous international political platforms to prepare for the UK's..

Dominic Raab fumes at Keir Starmer criticising his Crete holiday during fall of Afghanistan

This is the moment foreign secretary Dominic Raab fumes at Sir Keir Starmer after being criticised for holidaying in Crete during the fall of Afghanistan.Foreign secretary Raab angrily shouted at..

Labour say Taliban should not be recognised as Afghan govt

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer says the government are right to not recognise the Taliban as the Afghan government because they have "swept in by force". He also says the government need to take the..

Labour say govt 'missing in action' over Afghanistan

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticises the prime minister and foreign secretary for being "missing in action" on holiday as Kabul fell to the Taliban over the weekend. Starmer calls the outcome..

Starmer on Afghanistan: Catastrophic miscalculation by US

Sir Keir Starmer has said that the decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was a "catastrophic miscalculation", which led to "the unraveling of 20 years of progress and of huge sacrifice". The..

Sir Keir Starmer: 'We can’t turn our back on Afghanistan'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to respond urgently to an appeal by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani for international assistance to end the conflict in his country. The..

Starmer: Passengers are being 'ripped off' over tests

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer describes the government's Covid tests system for Britons returning from holiday abroad a rip-off. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn..

Starmer urges government to ease isolation rules sooner

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has challenged the government to match Wales by bringing forward the date on which fully vaccinated people in England can avoid isolation after contact with a Covid-19..

Daily politics briefing: July 27

All the latest political developments in the UK, after Sir Keir Starmer said Labour MP Dawn Butler was right to call Boris Johnson a liar in the House of Commons.