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Keir Starmer

11 March 2025

  • Stock image of Westminster street signs.

    Crackdown on quangos part of radical government proposal to reform state

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Labour used to give the needy the benefit of the doubt. Now they slash their benefits

    John Crace
  • Louise Haigh is promoting an amendment to the employment rights bill

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: MPs highlight ITN’s use of NDAs in employment rights debate – as it happened

  • Starmer with cabinet sitting around table

    Stop ‘outsourcing’ decisions to quangos, Starmer tells cabinet

  • Starmer to avoid immediate counter-tariffs if Trump puts levies on UK steel

  • ‘Country first, party second,’ says Starmer. So why menace Labour members who actually believe that?

    Polly Toynbee

10 March 2025

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

    PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit
  • Protesters rally outside the US embassy in Ottawa, Canada, on International Women's Day

    Canada’s lonely battle in the face of Trump threats

    Letters: Readers respond to an editorial on the US president’s malign strategy against its neighbour
  • An ultra-low emission zone, sign in London.

    Credit where it’s due for cleaner air in London

    Letters: Sadiq Khan should be congratulated for expanding the Ulez scheme despite criticism from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, says Peter Walker. Plus a letter from Dr Robin Russell-Jones

9 March 2025

  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Sycophancy and toadying are de rigueur in Trump’s court of self-aggrandizement

    Sidney Blumenthal
    Gestures of servility from administration members and world leaders alike are sickeningly common in the mad king’s court
  • Illustration by David Foldvari of an igloo with the US flag and the McDonald's logo

    Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope

    Stewart Lee
    The gadfly-minded abuser has openly threatened Greenland, Ukraine and Europe. He, and America, are the enemy now

    • More benefit cuts would risk turning drops of dissent in Labour’s ranks into a flood

      Isabel Hardman

    • The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now

      Will Hutton

    • After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance

8 March 2025

  • Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks on RFA Tidespring at Cammell Laird dock, in Birkenhead, north-west England on 6 March.

    Keir Starmer’s poll ratings leap after Trump withdraws support for Ukraine

    Around 30% of voters say they prefer Labour for dealing with ‘allies against threats to the UK’ in boost to party leader
  • BELGIUM-EU-UKRAINE-DIPLOMACY-DEFENCE-SUMMIT<br>France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he addresses the media during a press conference at the end of a Special European Council to discuss continued support for Ukraine and European defence at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 6, 2025. European Union leaders hold emergency talks in Brussels gathering as the Trump administration upends traditional alliances and retracts wartime backing of Ukraine. The summit brings all 27 EU leaders together for the first time since the explosive meeting between US and Ukraine presidents on February 28, 2025, with US military aid and intelligence sharing since suspended. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Observer view: Europe must now come of age as a global player

    As Trump upends old alliances, Keir Starmer’s collaboration with EU leaders is welcome and should extend beyond defence
  • Ben Wallace speaking in front of UK flag

    Trump suspending US intelligence sharing is ‘suffocating’ Ukraine’s hope, says Ben Wallace

    Former UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine can still win the war if it continues holding off Russian forces

7 March 2025

  • Angela Rayner, the housing, communities and local government secretary, speaks at the Convention of the North in Preston on 28 February 2025.

    The Guardian view on fixing England’s local democracy: reforming structures is the means, not the end

    Editorial: There is a danger of vital policy getting tangled in ambitious government plans that combine council restructuring with devolution
  • Ursula von der Leyen and Keir Starmer

    Britain’s biggest unions call for much closer UK-EU ties amid ‘volatile’ global economy

    Exclusive: union umbrella body calls for new cooperation agreement ahead of Keir Starmer’s reset talks with Brussels
  • The Department for Work and Pensions building in Whitehall

    ‘Don’t punish the vulnerable’: Labour MPs uneasy over planned welfare cuts

    Ministers say ‘unsustainable’ rise in spending must be tackled but many backbenchers fear changes will not work
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