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Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, in a statement outside 10 Downing Street - watch BBC coverage at the top of the page He says every decision he has made in office has been about "putting the country I love first" Starmer thanks his "fantastic wife, Vic", describing her as a "rock". He also says he wants to be the "best dad I can to my beautiful children, who are my pride and joy" Andy Burnham - who could replace the PM - will be in Westminster today to be sworn in as MP...

London — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he was resigning from his position as the leader of the ruling Labour Party, which will also see him replaced as the country's leader.

Starmer’s political career has been almost Shakespearean in its trajectory: a mere 11 years to enter parliament, lead Labour to an election win e and then, inside the final two years, throw it all away. No modern prime minister has looked so well-suited to the job on paper and been so fundamentally inept in practice. “Starmer didn’t know what he was doing in three ways,” “Firstly, he never worked out what the job was – what does the prime minister do? Secondly, he never knew what he wanted to do, above all not on economic policy. And thirdly, he didn’t...

BREAKING: President Trump confirms Keir Starmer is resigning as Prime Minister… before Starmer has confirmed it himself. The final humiliation.

British Prime ‌Minster Keir Starmer is expected to resign on Monday ​and set out ​a timetable for his departure, ⁠the Observer newspaper ​reported on Saturday. The newspaper ​said Starmer had reached the conclusion that his position was ​no longer tenable after ​speaking to cabinet minister, advisers, ‌donors ⁠and trade union leaders. The report said Starmer was discussing the matter with ​his wife ​at ⁠his Chequers country residence before making ​a final decision, ​but ⁠that senior Labour figures expected a clear statement ⁠on ​his future as ​early as Monday.

Ever since the May 7 Labour wipeout in the local council elections - elections, mind you, that British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer knew he was on course to get savaged in, so tried mightily to cancel or postpone for one flimsy reason or another until taken to court by Nigel Farage's Reform UK - Starmer has heard what might be described as the ticking of the clock in Capatin Hook's crocodile following him around.The ticking only got louder as Labour ministers resigned either in disgust that Starmer himself had not at the election losses the party had suffered. A...

As Peter McIlvenna reported earlier, the 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released on June 16, 2026, was led by Restore MP Rupert Lowe and survivor advocate Sammy Woodhouse. Funded by more than 20,000 British supporters, this investigation reveals a major failure in child protection. It documents the systematic grooming, rape, trafficking, and abuse of at least 250,000 vulnerable White British girls by mostly Muslim Pakistani gangs throughout the UK. The report’s main finding is clear. Organized groups, with 87-95% of convicted offenders having Muslim names, mostly of Pakistani background, targeted girls as young as 11 from unstable homes and care...

Warning shots fired by a Russian warship sailing across the Channel on Tuesday morning were “deeply concerning and reckless”, Keir Starmer said from the G7 summit on Wednesday as he warned that the UK was dealing with proxy attacks from Russia “every single day”. The prime minister said the Ministry of Defence had assessed that the Russian vessel was drifting and fired the shots within a few hundred metres of a British pleasure yacht. He said: “We’re living in a more volatile and dangerous world than we have at any time in our lifetimes … That is true, it’s not...

England supporters have reportedly been warned they risk being ejected from US stadiums should they make anti-Sir Keir Starmer chants throughout the World Cup. Fans are gearing up to cheer on Thomas Tuchel's side, who kick off their campaign in North America on Wednesday against Croatia (9pm BST). Tuchel's team are in Group L with matches against Ghana and Panama to follow Wednesday's fixture in Texas. The Three Lions will be chasing a first major trophy since their 1966 World Cup triumph. And one person likely to feel the wrath of England fans in North America is U.K. Prime Minister...

The last Prime Minister to resign over national security was Neville Chamberlain in 1940. Eighty six years later, Sir Keir Starmer’s defence secretary and armed forces minister have resigned because they believe the current PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer are endangering national security through their refusal to fund the armed services properly. The UK is ranked 31st out of 32 on a database comparing how Nato members are meeting their rearmament promises. The only country below us is Iceland, which has no armed forces. There could be no worse an accusation by a (now former) Defence Secretary. This should...

Muslim passengers being deported from Ireland to Pakistan were insensitively served pork sausages as part of a breakfast during their chartered flight. A Government-appointed human rights monitor branded the meal choice "inappropriate" aboard the journey from Dublin to Islamabad transporting 24 men to the Muslim-majority nation. The monitor's assessment noted "the quality of food was a low standard" and criticised the decision to include pork products for individuals travelling to an Islamic country – naturally defying the dietary practices of the religion. Before the flight – which cost Irish taxpayers €473,000 – the men were detained overnight across three separate...

Sir Keir Stamer has insisted the "vast majority" of Labour MPs supported him and wanted him to continue doing his job as prime minister. He was speaking to the Sunday Times at the end of a week in which speculation about a potential leadership challenge has risen. Sir Keir told the paper "in politics, you get this sort of thing all of the time, there is always talk". Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the prime minister should resign over his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the US, adding that Labour MPs should "develop a...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose tariffs on ​Britain if Prime Minister Keir Starmer does ‌not drop the digital service tax, The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing an interview with the president. Trump told ​The Telegraph he would “put a big ​tariff on the UK” if it did not ⁠drop its tax, which is viewed as ​unfairly targeting U.S. tech companies. The United Kingdom rolled ​out its 2% digital services tax in 2020, a move that has been criticized by Trump and his ​predecessor Democrat Joe Biden. The digital service tax ​targets companies like Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet's Google...

Keir Starmer has vowed he can win the next election and that it will be a battle between Labour and Reform. More revelations about Peter Mandelson’s failed security vetting had raised concerns among Labour MPs, who are also worried about the May elections. However, speaking with The Times, the embattled PM insisted Labour could defy the odds and turn things around. Asked about winning the general election, he said: “I think we can. I think it’s going to be a very important general election. It’s likely to be Labour versus Reform. An election where the defining question is, what is...

Labour is trailing in the polls and the prime minister's personal ratings have plumbed the depths. The party is facing losses in forthcoming elections: losing control of Wales, shedding councillors in England, and going into reverse in Scotland. To put the tin lid on it, the prime minister has been on the back foot over his appointment of Lord Mandelson to the job of ambassador to the US, and the subsequent sacking of senior civil servant, Sir Olly Robbins, in a row over security vetting. So the question being asked around Westminster is not 'should there be a Labour leadership...

Keir Starmer has said Britain’s nuclear deterrent is the front line of our defence as he warned the UK must not take its eyes off Russia amid the Iran crisis. The Mirror was given rare access to join the Prime Minister as he boarded a nuclear-armed Vanguard-Class submarine off the west coast of Scotland as it returned from a record 206-day deployment. His top-secret visit to greet Royal Navy submariners on "Day Zero" - their return to UK waters from their lengthy patrol - comes at a moment of sky-high global tensions. And his decision to showcase Britain's nuclear arsenal...

The United Kingdom is on a trajectory toward slow-motion collapse. British Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s initial reaction to the outbreak of the war against Iran was schizophrenic. He seemed wholly unprepared for a scenario in which Donald Trump would actually use the forces he had spent the previous two months flooding into the region, confounding the former Royal Navy officers and opposition lawmakers who somehow understood that Trump’s ultimatums weren’t just talk. At first, Starmer was appalled, and he blocked the Pentagon from using U.K. bases to launch sorties against Iranian targets. But the impracticality of that protest sapped his...

The prime minister did not know Lord Mandelson failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador until earlier this week, the government has said. A spokesperson said the decision to go against the recommendation of the vetting agency and allow him to take up the role was taken by officials in the Foreign Office. Sir Keir Starmer has faced calls to resign over allegations he misled Parliament and MPs when he claimed "full due process" was followed during the appointment. It came after the Guardian newspaper reported, external that Lord Mandelson was initially denied security clearance in late January...

Labour has slipped to fourth place in a poll on who people will vote for amid growing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of the upcoming local elections. YouGov research has still Reform ahead on national voting intention on 24%, with the Conservatives second on 19%. And the latest poll has the Greens gaining two points on Labour, in third place on 18% ahead of Labour on 17%. The Liberal Democrats are fifth on 13%. Labour is expected to lose a number of seats on May 7, with Reform and the Green Party expected to make sizeable gains. There...

The president and I spoke an hour after Buckingham Palace announced details of King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to the United States. His tone and his language revealed to me how distinctly he differentiates Britain's royals from its politicians. He also revealed that he did not know that the King's visit is taking place at the request of the government.