2025 • Aug 17
European leaders including Starmer to join Zelenskyy in Washington for meeting with Trump
Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’
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2025 • Aug 11
UK party leaders urged to end ‘pernicious currents’ of hatred fuelling anti-migrant protests
More than 200 refugee groups, charities and unions sign letter calling for action after weeks of protests outside asylum hotelsMore than 200 refugee organisations, charities and trade unions...
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2025 • Aug 10
Zelenskyy welcomes European leaders’ insistence on Ukraine role at peace talks
Ukrainian leader ‘fully supports’ statement before Trump-Putin summit that Kyiv must be part of ‘path to peace’The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has welcomed a statement from Eur...
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2025 • Aug 09
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievementsKeir Starmer’s government is seen as “a tired bunch of same-again politicians” ...
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2025 • Aug 08
US envoy to Israel taunts Starmer and likens Gaza assault to Dresden bombing
Mike Huckabee launches undiplomatic harangue after UK prime minister calls for immediate ceasefireThe US ambassador to Israel, Mike...
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2025 • Aug 08
Vance to arrive in UK for Lammy meeting as Starmer denounces Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City – UK politics live
The foreign secretary is to welcome the US vice-president to Chevening, his grace-and-favour residence, and Gaza is expected to be on their agendaIn
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2025 • Aug 08
Starmer calls Gaza City takeover plan wrong and urges Israel to reconsider
UK prime minister says occupation approved by Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet will only bring more bloodshed
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2025 • Aug 07
Reeves and Starmer to roll the pitch for tax rises in a difficult autumn budget
Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levyThe chancellor and prime minister will begin to pitch-roll tax rises and reforms fr...
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2025 • Aug 06
Reeves urged to consider replacing council tax as thinktank warns of ‘impossible trilemma’ for chancellor – UK politics live
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research says government’s spending gap is on course to reach more than £40bnKeir Starmer’s new ethics watchdog has criticised ministers for fai...
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2025 • Jul 31
Minister dismisses peers’ claims that UK recognition of Palestine may break international law
Gareth Thomas says move is ‘political judgment’ after challenge from 40 members of House of Lords
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2025 • Jul 31
Minister dismisses claims that recognising Palestinian state risks breaching international law – UK politics live
Gareth Thomas rejects arguments from 40 peers that move may be illegal under the Montevideo Convention, which sets out terms for statehoodPrisons in England and Wales have become more violen...
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2025 • Jul 30
Keir Starmer faces pushback after announcing UK will recognise state of Palestine unless Gaza crisis ends – UK politics live
Benjamin Netanyahu says announcement rewards ‘Hamas’s monstrous terrorism’ as Starmer says UK could recognise statehood in SeptemberThornberry also denied the suggestion tha...
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