Is Labour backsliding on pledge of more cash for defence? Ministers tight-lipped amid reports it will be 2032 before UK hits 2.5% of GDP target despite Trump demands for escalation

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 16:45 UTC

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No10 and defence ministers refused to repeat the party's election manifesto pledge that funding would increase to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2029.

Labour accused of 'hiding behind the UN' after refusing to change the law to give whole-life sentences to young killers on human rights grounds in the wake of Southport slaughter

found 2025 › Jan › 24 (Fri) @ 19:41 UTC

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Ministers and No10 said they were blocked by international convention from increasing the maximum sentence handed to juvenile offenders.

Brexiteer fury as No10 insists joining European trade bloc would NOT cross 'red lines' after EU chief hints at shape of Labour 'reset' - with single market rules and 'youth mobility' part of price

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 20:56 UTC

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Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic pointed to the idea of Britain becoming part of the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM).

Keir Starmer will watch Trump's inauguration on TV as No10 denies Labour is being 'punished' by new president - even though Italy's Giorgia Meloni DID get an invite

found 2025 › Jan › 20 (Mon) @ 15:17 UTC

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Downing Street confirmed Keir Starmer will be following the spectacle in Washington from No10, arguing that there is a convention that premiers do not attend.

Team Trump's revenge on Starmer for 'meddling' in the US election: How President could veto Mandelson as ambassador, humiliate Starmer in Washington and plot to help Farage into No10

found 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:55 UTC

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Mr Trump's key advisers are also debating whether to put Sir Keir Starmer 'at the back of the queue' of world leaders invited to Washington after tomorrow's inauguration.

Labour WON'T hand over the Chagos Islands until Donald Trump is back in office, No10 admits - as Mauritius sends negotiating team back to London over '£9bn' sovereignty deal

found 2025 › Jan › 16 (Thu) @ 16:04 UTC

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No10 admitted it was 'obviously now right' for Donald Trump's incoming US administration to consider the terms of an agreement to hand over the Indian Ocean archipelago.

Keir Starmer puts ousted aide Sue Gray in the Lords: Ex-civil servant turned Labour apparatchik handed a peerage after losing No10 power struggle

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

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Ms Gray, a former senior civil servant, stepped down as the Prime Minister's £170,000 chief of staff in October following reports of a clash with other senior aides.

Doing it for Britain: Keir Starmer defends jet-setting around the globe since becoming PM saying it allows him to 'make the case' for the UK

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 13:45 UTC

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Since entering No10, Sir Keir has travelled to the US, Germany , France , Italy , Ireland, Belgium, Samoa, Hungary , Azerbaijan , Brazil , the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus.