It’s official: Wes Streeting of the Labour Party wants to be Britain’s next prime minister - AP News

It’s official: Wes Streeting of the Labour Party wants to be Britain’s next prime minister  AP News

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Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham have said they want the UK to rejoin the EU.

Taxes and Trump Leave UK in a Worse State Than Starmer Found It - Bloomberg.com

Taxes and Trump Leave UK in a Worse State Than Starmer Found It  Bloomberg.com

Burnham plays down rejoining the EU after Streeting advocates reversing Brexit

Cabinet minister Lisa Nandy criticises ex-health secretary for his ‘sudden focus on Europe’

Where does UK-EU relationship stand and how might bid to rejoin bloc be received?

Labour leadership contender Wes Streeting calls Brexit a ‘catastrophic mistake’ while Andy Burnham sees ‘long-term case’ for rejoining EU Wes Streeting, who resigned as the health secretary last week and has said he will run in any contest to replace Keir Starmer as the Labour leader and prime minister, has described Brexit as a “catastrophic mistake” and said the UK should rejoin the EU. Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, who will fight an upcoming byelection on a promise ...

By Jon Henley European affairs correspondent

Could a leadership change undo Israel’s international isolation?

Opposition leaders hope to end Israel's isolation, even as they retain policies towards Palestinians that led to it.

UK leadership crisis: ‘Keir Starmer is a lame duck Prime Minister’ says former Labour adviser

It’s been a tumultuous week for Britain’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who is facing a leadership crisis. Following a chaotic week in which nearly 90 Labour MPs called on Starmer to resign, along with a series of ministerial resignations, the Prime Minister is clinging on to power. Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he would stand in any leadership contest, while Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, is plotting a return to Parliament after confirming he will stand in ...

By Gavin LEE

Wes Streeting accused of restarting ‘Brexit wars’ in Labour leadership row

Lisa Nandy criticises ‘odd’ call to rejoin EU – and says Starmer faces ‘personal decision’ on whether to stay and fight

By Kate Devlin

Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner: Who are the frontrunners to replace Keir Starmer as UK PM?

The uncertainty over Keir Starmer's political future was accelerated by Labour Party's disastrous performance in the recent local elections.

Shekhar Kapur picks John Abraham as next James Bond, actor reacts: ‘Practising my martini order’

Why Britain has turned on its cautious prime minister

Keir Starmer's huge Commons majority always concealed a political weakness: Britain voted more against Conservative chaos than for Labour's cautious leader. Now, with crises mounting and patience fading, Edmund Heaphy examines how the limits of technocratic politics are beginning to show.

The most turbulent of weeks for Starmer

British prime minister Keir Starmer was busy last week writing the king’s speech for the state opening of Parliament in between fending off “the slings and arrows of outrageous” scheming and plotting by members of his party in and out of Parliament. The king’s speech is the government’s legislative programme for the parliamentary year written […]

With an Iranian proxy commander arrested for attacks in the UK, will Starmer respond? - analysis

Al-Saad allegedly orchestrated and posted the HAYI propaganda videos of 18 attacks in Europe, most of which occurred in London over the last two months.

The battle for the future of Labour’s economic vision has begun - The Observer

The battle for the future of Labour’s economic vision has begun  The Observer

Poll: Who should be the next James Bond?

Auditions have begun to find Daniel Craig’s successor.

Are gilt markets acting as ‘the UK’s political police’?

Bond markets smell a crisis from a potential lurch to the left in the Labour Party

By The Week UK

Wes Streeting of the Labour Party wants to be Britain’s next prime minister - Arab News

Wes Streeting of the Labour Party wants to be Britain’s next prime minister  Arab News