Starmer under fresh attack for ‘unbelievably foolish’ winter fuel payment cuts ! B
Sir Keir Starmer is facing fresh criticism over his Government’s decision to cull winter fuel payments, with millions of pensioners set to lose out from Monday. Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly said it was an “unbelievably foolish choice” while Liberal Democrat work and pensions…
Diane Abbott claims Keir Starmer ‘treated her as a non-person’! B
Diane said Keir treated her like a ‘non-person’ (Pictures: Rex/PA) MP Diane Abbott has claimed Sir Keir Starmer treated her as a ‘non-person’ after a Tory donor made racist comments about her. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington claimed she was treated…
Give us ‘full pay restoration’ or we’ll strike again, junior doctors warn! B
Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting during a visit to the University College London Hospital Stefan Rousseau/via REUTERS Junior doctors will strike again if they are not awarded “full pay restoration” despite a 22 per cent deal, a senior BMA figure…
Junior doctors in England vote to accept pay deal! B
Junior doctors voted by a margin of 66% for the pay rise, on a turnout of 69%, ending the most prolonged industrial dispute in the NHS’s history. A doctor starting NHS foundation training will now get £36,600 a year. Junior…
Starmer puts ‘pragmatism’ before perceptions in meeting with Meloni! B
Some Labourites may see a hard-right populist but the British PM has an eye on the immigration policies of an ally British prime minister, Keir Starmer, with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni in the gardens of the Villa Doria Pamphili. Photograph:…
Benefit sanctions more likely for minority ethnic claimants, UK data shows! B
Black universal credit claimants 58% more likely to get sanctions than white people, while mixed ethnic groups are 72% more likely The sanctions have been notorious for putting some claimants into debt and forcing them to use food banks. Photograph: FilippoBacci/Getty…
Why Italy can do what Britain can’t with migration! B
The Rwanda Plan never took off so how did Italy, which has borne the brunt of illegal migrant arrivals, strike a similar asylum agreement? Sir Keir Starmer met with Giorgia Meloni to pick her brain for pointers on illegal migration Roberto…
Starmer: I won’t tell people to have more children, even as birth rate falls! B
‘He doesn’t understand basic mathematical problem,’ say critics as PM refuses to join European fertility drive to avert demographic crisis Sir Keir Starmer has suggested he will not tell people how many children they should have, amid a falling birth rate. Several…
Undercover tactics to smash people-smuggling gangs! B
Scotland Yard expert on organised crime appointed to tackle small boat crossings as eight migrants die in the Channel Covert surveillance and other undercover tactics will be used to try to track down and stop the people-smugglers Credit: Benoit Tessier/Reuters Sir…
Starmer to explore Albania migration deal as he meets Italian PM after appointing new border security chief! B
The deal Giorgia Meloni has struck with Albania will see Tirana accept asylum seekers on Italy’s behalf while their claims are processed. By Darren McCaffrey, political correspondent, in Rome with the prime minister Keir Starmer with Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia…