Jeremy Clarkson more worried about Keir Starmer replacement than China or Russia The TV personality banned the Prime Minister and all Labour MPs from his Oxfordshire pub Evening Standard · Dec 21, 2025
Streeting urges closer trading ties with Europe to grow UK economy Health secretary’s comments push further than government’s position on EU in wide-ranging interview The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025
Starmer will ‘absolutely’ still be prime minister by next Christmas, says Labour chair – as it happened Anna Turley says people will start to ‘see and feel’ change in public services and cost of living from next year The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025
Scrap Rayner’s workers’ rights reforms, Starmer-linked think tank urges Labour Together previously asked party members who they would back in leadership challenge The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2025
Angela Rayner ‘to publish memoir’ amid growing speculation over leadership challenge There has been growing speculation that Angela Rayner is preparing to challenge the prime minister, amid devastating approval ratings and growing concern over the direction of the Labour government The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2025
Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge Exclusive: Book to detail life from child poverty and teenage pregnancy to unions and Labour deputy leadership before fall from grace The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2025
From Keir as Eliot Ness to Radon Liz on YouTube – the 2025 alternative politics awards With the Christmas recess stopping our politicians causing more havoc, it’s time for the Guardian’s parliamentarian of the year awards The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2025
With Starmer’s enemies short on options, Labour MPs have to make do with gossip Efforts to get PM to spend more time with his MPs appear to be bearing fruit – and few in the party see a clear path for a leadership challenge The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025
Former Prince Andrew is butt of the year’s best Christmas cracker joke Two Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor gags make top 10 of public vote, along with jokes about Oasis and Nigel Farage The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025
Minister demands explanation from Starmer after being sacked from cabinet Culture minister Ian Murray is still furious about receiving no explanation over why he was sacked as Scottish secretary The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2025
‘Technocrat’ criticism was not aimed at Starmer, insists Streeting The Health Secretary also ruled out the possibility of challenging the Prime Minister’s leadership alongside Angela Rayner. Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2025
Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account too, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2025
Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – as it happened The vote will have no practical impact, despite Davey’s ‘historic’ claim The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2025
‘Could do a better job than Keir Starmer’: who could replace the PM if he is forced out? Labour leader remains bullish about defeating any challenge, but jostling for top job among rivals and their supporters continues The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2025
The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2025 Labour think tank that supported Starmer asks members who they would back in leadership challenge It comes amid growing concern about the direction of the government and devastating approval ratings less than two years after Labour’s historic landslide election victory
The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2025 Keir Starmer says ‘hugely talented’ Angela Rayner will return to cabinet PM gives clearest indication yet of comeback, calling former deputy ‘the best social mobility story’ the country has seen
Evening Standard · Dec 7, 2025 Sir Keir Starmer says former deputy Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet Ms Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary in September after an ethics probe found that she breached the ministerial code.
The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2025 Angela Rayner will return to cabinet, Keir Starmer says Angela Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary in September after she failed to pay the correct stamp duty on her Hove flat
The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2025 Angela Rayner forced to deny pact with Wes Streeting for Labour leadership The former deputy prime minister ‘will not be played like a pawn’, a source close to her said about the claims
Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2025 Rayner and Streeting deny claims of Labour leadership pact A source said ‘there is no vacancy and there is no pact’ amid claims that MPs close to Wes Streeting had approached Angela Rayner.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2025 UK workers will get unfair dismissal rights after six months from 1 January 2027 Angela Rayner drops plan to force earlier implementation after talks, says source, with start date to be announced in Commons
Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2025 Government delays decision on Chinese 'super embassy' again The UK government has again delayed its decision over whether to approve plans for a new Chinese “super embassy” in central London.
Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2025 Rayner to push to speed up part of workers’ Bill after day-one right scrapped Labour’s flagship workers’ rights package was stripped of the day-one right to claims against unfair dismissal amid a stand-off between peers and MPs.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025 Angela Rayner to lay amendment to speed up workers’ rights bill Exclusive: Former deputy PM understood to have accepted compromise on day-one rights, after ‘considerable anger’ over Lords intervention
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2025 It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers’ rights bill is a huge achievement It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee