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Starmer

72 days ago

Top Foreign Office civil servant is out as Starmer government again reels from the Mandelson scandal.
Parliamentary sources told the Mail that Labour tried to end the Commons session early next week to avoid Sir Keir having to endure another bruising clash with Kemi Badenoch.
The Prime Minister hauled in chiefs from X, Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google, which owns YouTube, to demand they take action to protect children.
The Prime Minister is under growing pressure over his Government's failure to respond to the Supreme Court ruling on women's rights a year ago.
Gov's spokesperson says Starmer had no knowledge of the Foreign Office overriding the security recommendation.
Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says
The U.K. Foreign Office gave the Labour grandee the green light to become U.K. ambassador to Washington against the recommendation of the government's vetting agency.
Readers will recall that the PM came over all unnecessary after Sir Lindsay told him to stop evading questions from Kemi Badenoch.
Keir Starmer confronted Lindsay Hoyle in the chamber after being reminded during yesterday's session that he was the one facing questions - not the Leader of the Opposition.

73 days ago

Keir Starmer has hit back at Labour peer George Robertson’s criticisms about defence funding. Why has the government been slow to prioritise defence and what trade-offs is Keir Starmer willing to mak…

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