Burnham team tell ministers to delay resignations to avoid chaos Exclusive: Allies of Labour’s Makerfield candidate concerned rapid collapse of Starmer government would increase instability The Guardian - UK · Jun 17
Keir Starmer’s legacy will be ‘managing to p*** off everyone’, ex-No 10 insider says IN THE ROOM: From farmers and veterans to judges and pensioners, Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson ask whether the prime minister’s legacy will be defined by the very groups he alienated on the road to reform, as reported by Athena Stavrou and Maja Anushka The Independent UK · Jun 17
New defence secretary to ‘reprioritise’ UK plan for military spending, say sources Starmer ‘can’t sack him or let him resign’, says ally of Dan Jarvis after predecessor’s resignation The Guardian - UK · Jun 14
No10 hits back as JD Vance blames Henry Nowak's murder on 'mass invasion of migrants' The US politician claimed Mr Nowak would be alive if European elites had resisted ‘the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants’. Evening Standard · Jun 5
No 10 hits back after JD Vance blames Henry Nowak murder on migrant ‘invasion’ The US politician claimed Mr Nowak would be alive if European elites had resisted ‘the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants’. The Independent UK · Jun 5
Boris Johnson described Theresa May as a ‘giant yucca tree under whose shade everything dies’ Exclusive: Sir Conor Burns, one of Boris Johnson’s closest aides, lays bare the former prime minister’s dim view of his predecessor in new book marking 10 years since the Brexit referendum The Independent UK · Jun 4
Inside the dirty tricks campaigns trying to stop Andy Burnham in race for No 10 NEWS ANALYSIS: As the phantom leadership contest rumbles on ahead of a by-election in Makerfield, political editor David Maddox looks at the dirty tricks campaigns being unleashed by Labour MPs to stop Andy Burnham making it into No 10 The Independent UK · May 19
Streeting will expose ‘human shopping trolley’ Burnham, say allies of ex-health secretary Exclusive: Burnham has faced criticism for backtracking on his stance on Brexit and economic policies The Independent UK · May 19
Politics latest: Starmer under pressure over Mandelson vetting files release after fresh delay Burnham confirmed as Labour’s Makerfield by-election candidate in make-or-break battle with Reform The Independent UK · May 15
Starmer needs sharper survival strategy if he is to stay on Tepid cabinet support and a blunted No 10 operation are making it harder for the prime minister to face down critics The Guardian - UK · May 12
Why the path to No 10 is not an easy one for any of Starmer’s would-be challengers Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and surprise candidate Al Carns all face significant hurdles to be PM The Independent UK · May 12
Labour must offer more than ‘better managed decline’ on economy, MPs urge Soft-left Tribune group issues thinly disguised attack on Keir Starmer, calling for bold policy renewal The Guardian - UK · May 12
Starmer faces fight to survive as Streeting and Rayner eye leadership bids Chances of Starmer remaining in No 10 appear to be diminishing as about 40 Labour MPs call on him to quit The Guardian - UK · May 11
Who are the main threats to Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership? PM is determined to fight on in No 10 but various contenders to replace him have been organising for some time The Guardian - UK · May 11
The Guardian - UK · Apr 29 How King Charles’s speech was written – and how to read it King’s carefully crafted address to US Congress was the result of close liaison with aides, No 10 and Foreign Office
The Guardian - UK · Apr 28 No 10 dismisses Reeves’s reported plan for freeze on private rents Downing Street says focus will remain on cutting bills, backing renters and lowering energy prices
Evening Standard · Apr 28 McSweeney denies giving intentionally false details to police after phone stolen Concerns have been raised that the theft of the phone could result in important messages about Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment being lost.
Evening Standard · Apr 24 No 10: Falklands sovereignty ‘not in question’ amid fears over US stance A Pentagon email suggested Donald Trump’s US administration could review its position on the UK’s claim to the Falkland Islands.
The Independent UK · Apr 23 Starmer-Mandelson latest: Dismissal of Robbins over vetting scandal ‘wholly unacceptable’, says ex-Labour minister Denis MacShane said he had never seen such a ‘fallout’ between No 10 and the civil service
The Guardian - UK · Apr 22 Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, to be questioned by MPs Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues
The Guardian - UK · Apr 22 After Starmer and Robbins, McSweeney faces a grilling on Mandelson. Can this government survive? Our panel responds The civil servant says he was pressured by No 10 to get Mandelson’s vetting done; the PM says he wasn’t informed. Who emerges most damaged?
Evening Standard · Apr 22 Keir Starmer does not deny No 10 considered giving Lord Doyle diplomatic job The Prime Minister said there were ‘often conversations about other roles’ when staff leave roles ‘in any organisation’.
The Independent UK · Apr 22 Starmer and Badenoch clash at PMQs over Mandelson’s vetting – what was said IN FULL
Evening Standard · Apr 22 Starmer says Robbins evidence ‘puts to bed’ claims that he misled MPs The Prime Minister insisted he did not mislead the Commons over details of Lord Mandelson’s appointment.
The Independent UK · Apr 22 Starmer facing fresh pressure over Mandelson scandal – here’s why IN FULL