Keir Starmer is this week conducting face-to-face interviews with four candidates to be Cabinet Secretary:
Olly Robbins
Antonia Romeo
Tamara Finkelstein
Chris Wormald
If he goes for Romeo or Finkelstein it would be the first female Cabinet Secretary in history
25.11.2024 17:09 β π 88 π 20 π¬ 8 π 4
Sir Keir Starmer responds to a petition signed by 2 million people calling for an election, saying it's not a surprise but that it 'isn't how our system works'
'Very many people don't vote Labour. I'm not that surprised that many of them want a re-run. That isn't how our system works'
25.11.2024 17:08 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
BREAKING:
British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles have been fired at targets in Russia for the first time
Fragments of missiles have been found in Kursk
It comes after US long-range missiles were used in strikes on a military facility in Bryansk
20.11.2024 14:40 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Labour says that hitting its target of building 1.5m more homes by 2030 is going to be 'more difficult than we expected'
Matthew Pennycook, planning minister, says housebuilding is 'in a trough'. 'We've got to pull ourselves out of that trough. That will take time'
20.11.2024 11:03 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
EXCLUSIVE:
Britain's biggest retailers warn Rachel Reeves NI rise will lead to shop closures, job losses, pay restraint and higher prices
79 retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsburyβs, Morrisons, Ldi, Lidl, Boots, JD Sports, Next have signed letter
www.thetimes.com/article/6e6c...
19.11.2024 06:14 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1
Keir Starmer confirms he will vote on assisted dying bill but won't say how - suggests that doing so would put pressure on people
Given that it is a matter for individual MPs is there not a strong argument that it's time to dispense with the neutrality rule and let ministers say what they think?
18.11.2024 15:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
President Xi channels Keir Starmer after their meeting on the fringes of the G20 summit in Rio, saying that Labour is 'working to fix the foundations'
It's the first meeting between a British PM and Xi in five years
18.11.2024 14:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
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