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Keir Starmer

News

Government’s ‘cruel’ immigration policies could cause exodus of migrant nurses, RCN warns

Olivia Barber
15 May, 2025

The union has said Labour’s ‘hostile environment on steroids’ will do ‘great damage’ to the NHS and social care

A photo of Keir Starmer speaking in the Commons
News

Keir Starmer says Tories are “sliding into oblivion” and “a dead party walking” at PMQs

Olivia Barber
14 May, 2025

Starmer called Badenoch “unserious” for criticising Labour’s trade deals and said the Tories are “sliding into brain dead oblivion”.

A photo of Keir Starmer speaking in the Commons
News

Keir Starmer called out for ‘denying facts’ about Israel’s destruction of Palestine

Olivia Barber
8 May, 2025

Starmer told Shockat Adam MP: “Most of what he says is simply not right”. Was that true?

Kemi Badenoch
News

Keir Starmer slams Kemi Badenoch’s hypocrisy over net-zero U-turn in PMQs energy bills clash

Olivia Barber
7 May, 2025

“The only way to get bills down is to go to renewable energy. It’s something she used to believe in.”

News

Labour mayor warns Keir Starmer to listen to voters after narrow win over Reform

Olivia Barber
2 May, 2025

‘The results here tonight demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street’

Keir Starmer
News

Starmer slams Badenoch at PMQs for having ‘lost control of her party’ after Jenrick hints at Reform ‘coalition’

Basit Mahmood
23 April, 2025

‘The mask has slipped just one week before the election’

Keir Starmer
News

Keir Starmer confirms he is still committed to lowering the voting age to 16

Basit Mahmood
9 April, 2025

“We will definitely get it done, it’s a manifesto commitment and we intend to honour it.”

A photo of Keir Starmer making a speech at a lectern.
News

Keir Starmer roasts Reform UK during Labour’s local election launch

Basit Mahmood
3 April, 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken apart Reform UK during Labour’s local election launch, slamming the far-right party for ‘putting themselves before the country’. The elections on 1 May are the party’s first major test at the ballot box sincetest

A photo of Kemi Badenoch speaking at PMQs today
News

Kemi Badenoch slammed for citing ‘fantasy figure’ to claim families will be poorer under Labour

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2025

Keir Starmer called her out for using what she claimed was the OBR’s figure in PMQs

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement
Opinion

Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka
28 March, 2025

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is atest

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