#keir-starmer

#keir-starmer

Starmer's most costly quarter for foreign travel occurred in the last three months of 2025, with eight trips totaling £1.2 million, including a £413,000 visit to Brazil.

In my view, the biggest mistake we've made is abolishing the Rwanda plan. Despite the legal challenges, it represented our best hope for reducing illegal crossings.

for the first time in 18 months, Star Sports has staked Labour as most likely to win the general election. Keir Starmer's party have been in the ascendency in the market, said their head of betting, William Kedjanyi, shortening into 13/8 from 15/8 in the past week to supplant Reform at the head of the betting.

It was a dark week for the prime minister, with the departure of his longtime chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who had become a deeply divisive figure and who took the hit for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite his links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But last Thursday morning had for a change been dominated by a different story.

If Labour wins in what has been an over-50% solid red-voting area since the second world war, that will calm nerves on its febrile back (and front) benches. If Labour loses, heavy blame will fall on Keir Starmer for fixing the party's ruling NEC to bar Andy Burnham's selection, ensuring he couldn't challenge for the leadership without a Westminster seat.

Keir Starmer has bought some more time, there is a modest bounce in his polling, and he has had the well-timed fortune of the Munich security conference. His call there for the remaking of western alliances and taking the initiative on European defence cooperation has fumigated the air a little of the sense of imminent demise that has been swirling around him. But it will probably be a temporary hiatus.

Everyone is now vying for the central controls of the DLR, with Keir still in the fake driving seat. We really need the prime minister at some point to work out the controls for himself.

Keir Starmer was on the brink of a leadership contest this week, but he pulled it back. That does not mean his rivals have gone away, with one of the most hotly tipped leadership candidates the health secretary, Wes Streeting. Earlier this week, Labour's leader in Scotland, Anas Sarwar, held an astonishing press conference calling for Starmer to resign.

Sir Keir Starmer nominated a former aide for a peerage despite being told he had been supportive of a councillor who had been accused of child sex offences, his ex-communications chief has claimed. The prime minister is facing continued questions over his judgment in appointing his former spin doctor, Matthew Doyle, to the House of Lords after he campaigned for a councillor who had been charged with having indecent images of children.

Keir Starmer arrived at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions with his claws sharpened. He reminded the Conservatives of Boris Johnson's misdeeds; the Liberal Democrats of their complicity in the austerity imposed by David Cameron's government; and Scottish National Party (SNP) of the corruption cases involving its previous leadership. Welldrilled Labour MPs cheered and applauded their leader. The immediate goal was to contain the fallout from the MandelsonEpstein scandal, which had come close to ending the British prime minister's brief tenure.

When he does go, what will the political death certificate give as the true cause of Keir Starmer's demise? It won't be the Peter Mandelson scandal, the policy U-turns or the bleak nights at provincial counting centres. All these are symptoms, not the disease. No, what is turning the guy elected just 19 months ago into an ex-prime minister is the slow realisation among ministers, colleagues and voters of one essential truth about the man: there is less to him than meets the eye.