Doubts about Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister has fed months of plots and paranoia within the Labour Party about who if anyone might be ready to take his place.
The UK has drawn up plans to prepare for potential food disruption as the Iran conflict causes a drop-off in supplies of carbon dioxide used widely in the industry.
Carbon dioxide is vital for the food industry because it’s used in packaging.
UK Defense Secretary John Healey said drones are Ukraine’s priority as it defends against Russia’s invasion, stepping up British support by promising to send 120,000 this year to the war-torn nation.
Soldiers prepare a drone for launch in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on April 8.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected a high-profile critique of his government’s commitment to increase defense spending, promising to publish “as soon as possible” the UK’s long overdue military investment plan.
The UK warned Vladimir Putin against damaging Britain’s undersea cables and pipelines after a month-long operation to track three Russian submarines in nearby waters.
Labour has slipped to fourth place in UK national polling ahead of a set of local and regional elections next month that are shaping up to be particularly bruising for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing party.
Buckingham Palace announced plans for King Charles III to visit Washington next month, even as President Donald Trump stepped up his criticism of the UK over its lack of support for his military campaign against Iran.
King Charles III, left, and US President Donald Trump at Windsor Castle in September.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested he won’t be bullied by Donald Trump in a further demonstration of how the US president’s war on Iran has frayed the so-called special relationship between their two countries.
Keir Starmer Photographer: Adrian Dennis/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Keir Starmer said the UK would provide “appropriate” support to ease household energy bills later in the year, as the prime minister sought to contain the domestic fallout from the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Electricity pylons next to residential housing in the UK. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
The Welsh nationalists of Plaid Cymru are set to overtake Labour to become the biggest party in Wales for the first time since 1999’s devolution, YouGov found in a survey that lays bare the danger to Prime Minister Keir Starmer posed by local elections in May.
YouGov described the projection as “nearing existential” for the Welsh Tories
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined counterparts in Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands in calling on Iran to stop attacks on energy sites and other civilian infrastructure and to end the shipping gridlock in the Strait of Hormuz.
Tankers at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal in the Sharjah Emirate, along the Strait of Hormuz.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite an official vetting process that warned his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein entailed “reputational risks.”
The UK government is preparing to publish a first set of documents relating to the controversial appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador in a move that threatens to redouble pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Peter Mandelson in London on March 9. Photographer: Lucy North/PA
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to reinvent his ailing Labour government with a leftwards pivot after the Green Party captured one of its House of Commons seats via a special election.
Residents of suburban Manchester head to the polling booths on Thursday to vote in a parliamentary election that threatens to lay bare the danger posed to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party from both the political right and left.
Keir Starmer attends a campaign event ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, on Feb. 23. Photographer: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
Keir Starmer’s government appointed Antonia Romeo as the first woman to head the UK civil service, filling a vacancy that suddenly and unexpectedly became available after a spate of departures from the prime minister’s top team.
The UK’s top civil servant quit his post after just 14 months, adding to the churn in Keir Starmer’s government that had already seen him lose two of his most senior aides this week.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves took a swipe against European Union plans for a “made in Europe” law, urging her counterparts on the continent to broaden the concept out to other like-minded countries.
Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit his post over his controversial appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, becoming the most senior party figure so far to pull support from the beleaguered premier.
Anas Sarwar speaks during a press conference in Glasgow on Feb. 9. Photographer: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images