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By our own metrics, the government is not thriving. Waiting times at emergency ( A&E) wards may be falling, but at a glacial pace. The number of migrants crossing in small boats has risen by 38% over the past year. Housebuilding is moribund and crime incidents, although relatively low, have increased by 10%.
Migrants were pictured reaching the shores of Dover on Friday morning, hours after Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir Starmer signed a new bilateral immigration deal. The UK prime minister and French president agreed a pilot "one in, one out" scheme for migrants during the thrid and final day of the Anglo-French summit in the UK.
Sir Keir Starmer is coming under mounting pressure from within his own Cabinet to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite Treasury warnings over a lack of funding to ditch the policy.
Fears are mounting of a £8 billion stealth income tax as pressure builds on Starmer to commit another budget U-turn
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer answers questions during a press conference on Aug. 1, 2024. Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer answers questions during a press conference on Aug. 1, 2024. Henry Nicholls—AFP/ Contributor It was a moment that will remain etched in British minds.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has addressed why he didn’t publicly back Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Commons on Wednesday.
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Victims of the Post Office scandal spoke out on television earlier today, with a message for the Prime Minister
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Sir Keir Starmer says Rachel Reeves will remain as Chancellor 'into the next election' and for years afterSir Keir Starmer has given his full support to Chancellor Rachel Reeves after she was seen crying during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. Ms Reeves’s visibly tearful appearance in the Commons came amid speculation that her job was at risk after the Government’s U-turn on welfare cuts put an almost £5 billion hole in her spending plans.
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Sir Keir Starmer was forced to abandon a key plank of his welfare reform agenda to get the legislation through its first Commons test.
Kneecap lead Glastonbury crowd in chants against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - In the run-up to the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, several politicians called for Kneecap to be removed from the line-up.
The Prime Minister cuts a dash on the international stage, but at home seems detached from his own administration