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Andy Burnham has said UK net migration “needs to fall further”, after new government figures showed it had almost halved since 2024. Labour’s by-election candidate in Makerfield said people on the doorstep have “raised their concerns about immigration” with him. He added the latest figures on net migration – the difference between those entering and leaving the country – show ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage failed to pay a debt of £9,400 and had a County Court judgment imposed against him in 2024. The judgment, which is publicly available on an official national database, shows that the County Court Online service made the finding against the Reform UK leader almost two years ago. The basic facts of the ruling do ...

Prime Minister’s Advisor on Education and Primary and Mass Education, Mahdi Amin held a meeting with UK Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum Alex Norris MP at the British Home Office on Tuesday (19 May). Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr M Nazrul Islam, and British Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka James Goldman were also ...

It is a “personal decision” for Sir Keir Starmer whether he chooses to fight any potential leadership contest, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said. She told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Sir Keir had “shown before that he’s up for a fight” and “I wouldn’t write off the prime minister”. The PM has defied calls to step down ...

Amid the political turmoil in the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reportedly told his inner circle that he is ready to “stand down”. Citing a member of the cabinet, the Daily Mail UK reported that Starmer is ready to step down as prime minister but will “do it on his own terms.” ‘He realises the current chaos ...

They were times in which prime ministers seemed to be on their way out as soon as they’d arrived. The big strategic decisions the country faced were ducked or postponed. The public finances repeatedly wobbled, yet efforts to rationalise the tax system faltered in the face of vested interests, including farmers. Reforms to social security were trumpeted before being diluted. ...

Christopher Harborne, the crypto billionaire who controversially gifted Nigel Farage £5m, has been named in the list of the UK’s wealthiest people for the first time. Other first-timers include Noel and Liam Gallagher and Emily Eavis, the daughter of the Glastonbury festival founder, Michael Eavis, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List published on Friday. Harborne, who gave Farage ...

One of Keir Starmer’s closest allies in the cabinet has conceded that the prime minister is “unpopular” but has insisted Labour should not repeat the same pattern of changing leaders that damaged the Conservatives. The housing secretary, Steve Reed, one of Starmer’s most loyal ministers and staunch defenders, told broadcasters on Friday that no one had the numbers to challenge ...

Wes Streeting has quit the cabinet as health secretary and called on Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister, saying there should now be a leadership contest. Streeting, who is on the party’s right, has long been gathering support for a challenge and has spent the week gathering names of MPs for his nomination. But in his letter to Starmer, ...

Miatta Fahnbulleh, a minister in Keir Starmer’s government, resigned on Tuesday while publicly questioning the British Prime Minister’s leadership and urging him to begin an “orderly transition” within the Labour Party. Fahnbulleh became the first minister in Starmer’s administration to step down openly over concerns about the direction of the government. In her resignation message posted on X, she wrote: ...