Politics

Keir Starmer announced that Britain has consented to permit the United States to employ its military installations for strikes on Iranian missile facilities. Although Britain has not taken part in the US‑Israeli attacks on Iran, the prime minister said in a Sunday evening recorded address that Tehran’s conduct

Keir Starmer said RAF fighter aircraft are currently patrolling the skies to protect regional partners from possible Iranian retaliation following the US‑Israel bombing offensive aimed at regime change in Tehran. The United Kingdom did not take part in the initial strikes on Iran on Saturday morning and has no

Andy Burnham likely would have secured the Gorton and Denton by‑election, Labour’s deputy leader asserted while urging the party to lean more on the Greater Manchester mayor. Labour slipped to third place in the formerly safe constituency on Thursday, as the Greens captured a fifth parliamentary seat and

London’s mayor has warned that the Gorton and Denton by‑election has revealed a “wide‑reaching shift and division” in British politics and that Labour must abandon its “defective approach” of assuming liberal progressives will stay loyal. In what reads as a rebuke of Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan disputed

The home secretary’s choice to reinforce strict immigration measures after Labour’s by‑election loss to the Greens is “disappointing”, says Labour peer Alf Dubs. Lord Dubs, who escaped Nazi‑occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had earlier charged Shabana Mahmood with “pulling up the drawbridge” on child

Keir Starmer is confronting an ultimatum from his own party: alter course or risk a leadership contest within months after the Greens dealt Labour a stunning defeat in the Gorton and Denton by‑election. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green councillor, overturned a 13,000‑vote Labour majority from