TV tonight: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer go head-to-head in first televised debate | Television
Sunak v Starmer: ITV debate 9pm, ITVAhead of the general election on 4 July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Opposition Leader Keir Starmer will face off in the first televised debate, moderated by ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham and in front of a live audience. Both Sunak and Starmer have said they are looking forward to […]
Starmer: I’m a socialist and progressive who will always put country first | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer describes himself as a socialist and progressive but said the country does not have the funds to deliver on some of the promises he made during the 2020 Labour leadership election. Starmer, who is facing growing pressure to clarify whether he would raise tuition fees if Labour wins the election, gave a personal […]
Keir Starmer offers ‘change’, ‘change’ and even more ‘change’. But that’s not the same as governing | Simon Jenkins
WThe focus group opinion was reportedly clear. Labour’s Keir Starmer is uninspiring. The economy is not in desperate need of new management. The world is certainly in turmoil. But there is one message he made sure to get across from Starmer’s podium on Wednesday. “Change”. Rishi Sunak has been a decidedly less bad chancellor than […]
Keir Starmer: ‘no quick fix to Tory mess’ if Labour wins election | Labour
Keir Starmer says there will be no “quick fixes” to the serious problems Labor will inherit if it wins the next election, amid fanfare of support from senior officials. announced the party’s six campaign promises. The Labor leader said the country’s “most rational and tolerant people” believed the party would be in Britain before receiving […]
Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer will on Thursday unveil his version of New Labor’s pledge card for the next general election, making six key promises “clarified” as part of the party’s proposals to sway voters. Campaign materials will be distributed to voters on doorsteps across England and will be unveiled at an event in Essex as the Labor […]
It’s time to end the UK’s divisions: Labour is for everyone | Keir Starmer
RIshi Sunak may have been scared to put his name on the ballot paper this week, but voters sent him a clear message in the local election anyway. People across the country voted for change, from the manufacturing hub of Derby to industrial Redditch and Thurrock in Essex. In Aldershot, home to the British military, […]
Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security | Andrew Rawnsley
IWe’re not sure who coined this term, but it’s the perfect word to describe the decade or so that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Wealthy liberal democracies were treated as “holidays from history.” Western powers began to turn Cold War swords into plowshares after their […]
Keir Starmer calls for England to scrap kit with new St George’s Cross design | England
Labor leader Keir Starmer has called for the multicolored St George’s cross to be scrapped on England’s new Euro kit shirts, replacing it with the traditional red and white cross. Nike and England removed the red and white cross on the collar and replaced it with navy, blue and purple stripes. Nike claimed that the […]
Starmer says Gaza fighting âmust stop nowâ and warns against Rafah assault | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer says “the fighting must stop now” in Gaza and urges Israel to travel to the southern city of Rafah ahead of what could be a new crisis for his party. warned against escalating military attacks. The Labor leader made the comments in a speech to the Scottish Labor Party conference in Glasgow, where […]
Keir Starmer reportedly wanted to quit after 2021 Hartlepool defeat | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was considering resigning as Labor leader after defeat in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election, according to a new biography. The Conservative loss in the Durham County constituency was a blow to Mr Starmer, who had held the seat since the party was founded in 1974. Almost two and a half years later, Labor achieved […]