Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was confident his likely successor, Andy Burnham, would maintain the UK’s commitment to defense, as he laid out plans to invest an extra £15 billion ($20 billion) to modernize the British military.

Andy Burnham pledged to radically devolve fiscal powers away from Westminster and deliver “good growth” in every part of the UK if he succeeds in his bid to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister.

Andy Burnham pledged to radically devolve fiscal powers away from Westminster and deliver “good growth” in every part of the UK if he succeeds in his bid to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister.

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to increase defense spending, setting up potential tensions with the man most likely to succeed him, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

Andy Burnham appears set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade after Keir Starmer laid out a timeline for his own departure and potential rivals backed a quick transition to the popular Manchester politician.

UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Keir Starmer is reflecting on “political realities” as reports swirled that the UK prime minister may soon set a timetable for his departure ahead of leadership rival Andy Burnham’s return to Parliament.

Andy Burnham’s return to the House of Commons means UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing an unprecedented challenge to his leadership from within his Labour Party.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Elon Musk of stoking unrest in Britain after the world’s richest man used the murder of a British teen to say official UK police policy requires officers to be racist against White people.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson urged the UK’s competition regulator to probe the role played by private equity firms in the £9.5 billion ($12.8 billion) government-funded childcare market, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government seeks to bear down on living costs.

More than a decade after failing in his bid to become UK prime minister, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has emerged as a key player in efforts to remove Keir Starmer from the post he once sought.

The UK government has banned 11 foreign far-right agitators from entering the country ahead of a planned Unite the Kingdom march on Saturday orchestrated by Tommy Robinson.

Keir Starmer’s government vowed to protect the UK against external and economic threats in a King’s Speech that majored on security even as the prime minister faces a potential challenge to his own leadership.

Embattled UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared to buy himself a reprieve from efforts to oust him, after a high-stakes Cabinet meeting that ended with a public show of support from a handful of key allies.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected calls to step aside as Labour leader, after a historic round of elections that saw Nigel Farage prove his populist Reform UK can win across Britain and pro-independence parties advance in Scotland and Wales.

A rebellion in Britain’s ruling Labour Party put Keir Starmer on the brink of being forced from office, following a terrible performance in local elections. Labour lost around 1,500 council seats in England, with Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK enjoying widespread success across the country.

Britons will head to the polls on Thursday for one of the most consequential rounds of local elections in memory, with control of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and more than half of England’s councils at stake.

In the central London neighborhood of Hackney, Mayor Caroline Woodley is finding the Labour Party that’s dominated local government here for over 50 years to be an unusually hard sell.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves enjoys a “good relationship” with her US counterpart Scott Bessent, a spokesman for the UK government said following a Financial Times report that the two finance ministers argued in Washington last month.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to use the “full power of the state” to crack down on antisemitism, after a stabbing in north London raised fresh questions about the government’s attention to threats against Britain’s Jewish community.

Labour is set to hemorrhage votes to both the Greens on the left and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on the right during local elections in London next month, according to a new poll that lays bare the flagging popularity of Keir Starmer’s governing party.