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Keir Starmer

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Britain is living beyond its means

    No party looks truly ready to confront tax-resistant voters with some hard questions

    1 hour ago
    Illustration of a credit card machine declining a payment for a Bank of England credit card
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Former Tory party chair Jake Berry defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

    Conservative politician’s switch comes as rightwing populist party has clear lead in polls

    Jake Berry delivers a speech to Tory party delegates in Birmingham in October 2022
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK defence nuclear
    UK and France vow to co-ordinate nuclear weapons for first time

    Announcement marks increase in co-operation between allies amid growing threat from Russia

    An unarmed missile is fired from HMS Vigilant
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Keir Starmer refuses to rule out extending tax-band freeze

    Labour government is battling to fill fiscal hole that some economists say could amount to more than £20bn

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Downing Street leaves door open to higher UK taxes on the wealthy

    Treasury says it will protect ‘working people’ ahead of what is set to be a painful autumn Budget

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Macron and Starmer to focus on migration and defence in talks this week

    UK aides play down likelihood of sealing a ‘one in, one out’ returns deal during French leader’s UK visit

    French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Markets
    Has Starmer placated gilt investors?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    Keir Starmer, centre, speaks to parliament while Rachel Reeves, right, cries in the Houses of Parliament in London, England on July 2 2025
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Scoreboard
    Fast cars, soft power: how F1 fuels brand Britain Premium content

    Plus, the WNBA’s expansion hits new heights

  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    How Labour can resurrect itself

    To recover from a dreadful first year, Starmer must acknowledge his failures

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a broken Chinese vase with the Labour party symbol on it, stuck together with tape and with a tube of glue next to it
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Political Fix podcast37 min listen
    A year of Keir

    Labour's cheers, tears, and welfare fears

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    News in-depthUK politics
    How Keir Starmer fumbled his first year in power

    On the anniversary of the UK election, the prime minister and his Labour party are searching for direction

    Sir Keir Starmer, left, and chancellor Rachel Reeves in the House of Commons
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Labour’s squandered promise of stability

    The prime minister has failed to provide political cover for his chancellor

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves crying as Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Markets rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor and backs fiscal rules

    Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (left), Prime Minister Sir Keir (right) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting (second left)
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK schools
    Starmer’s next fight with his MPs: special needs funding in schools

    Charities say ministers must learn lessons of welfare fiasco if prime minister is to avoid another climbdown

    A child in a school draws
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Starmer moves to bolster Reeves after tearful Commons episode fuels bonds slump

    UK prime minister says he ‘in lockstep’ with chancellor who will be in the position for a ‘very long time to come’

    Rachel Reeves appears to shed a tear in the House of Commons as Keir Starmer speaks
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Crying for a lost Labour government

    If the double act is no longer working, the core problem may not be Reeves

    Illustration of Rachel Reeves as an iron statue in front of the Union Jack. The statue has split around her eye, revealing a tear
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    ExplainerLabour party UK
    Blame game engulfs Labour over botched welfare reforms

    Political judgment of Starmer and close allies in doubt after U-turn on planned cuts to benefits

    Starmer with (clockwise from bottom left) Morgan McSweeney, Angela Rayner, Claire Reynolds, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall and Liz Lloyd
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Keir Starmer is preferable to his party

    The UK prime minister is weak but Labour MPs are deluded about fiscal reality

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a hand trying to reach a fly away upside down turned red umbrella with the Labour party symbol on it.
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Welfare retreat means UK cannot axe two-child benefit cap, Reeves to tell MPs

    Eleventh-hour climbdown on reforms leaves government facing a fiscal shortfall

    MPs in the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Starmer guts UK welfare reforms to avoid Commons defeat

    Government wins vote but watered-down measures will leave a multibillion-pound hole in public finances

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Life sciences plan delayed over pricing battle with pharma industry

    Ministers remain locked in talks with sector over future of clawback tax

    A pharmacist with prescriptions at a pharmacy in London
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    How the ‘rebel alliance’ took on Starmer over welfare — and won

    Plans to cut £5bn from Britain’s spiralling benefits bill lie in tatters after U-turn

    A montage showing the Houses of Parliament, with Liz Kendall and Keir Starmer in the foreground
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Labour braces for biggest rebellion of Starmer era over welfare reform

    Thirty-nine MPs back new amendment designed to kill bill ahead of Tuesday vote

    Liz Kendall, UK work and pensions secretary in parliament in London, England on July 1 2025
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK immigration
    Small boat crossings to UK soar in first half of year

    Data underscores severe challenge facing Labour government as it seeks to cut irregular migration

    A group of people board a smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off a beach in northern France
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    Pyrrhic victory on UK welfare shows need for systemic reform, analysts say

    Think-tanks argue sensitive policy change should not be driven by need to meet fiscal rules

    Montage shows Keir Starmer against a backdrop of money and the government logo
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