Prime Minister Keir Starmer

June 12, 2026 2:44 PM

UK defence minister quits, says Starmer not spending enough to keep country safe

British defence minister John Healey quit on Thursday over a months-long dispute over military spending, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to commit the resources that are needed to keep the country safe from mounting threats. The resignation, accompanied by a scathing critique of the prime minister, is another indication that Starmer's authority is draining away and exposes a crisis at the heart of the government - how it can ramp up defence spending when there is little money to...

June 8, 2026 4:01 PM

Big tech firms must stop young people circulating nude images, says UK PM Starmer

Big tech firms operating in Britain must stop children circulating nude images on their phones or they will face legislation forcing them to do so, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. The announcement is Starmer's latest effort to protect children from the harmful impacts of technology. It comes as the Times reported that he is also planning to announce a ban on some social media platforms for those aged under 16. "Today I'm calling on tech companies operating in this country to introd...

June 1, 2026 5:26 PM

Britain will not have to pay Rwanda millions over asylum deal, court rules

Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of pounds over a canceled asylum deal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said on Monday. The Hague-based body said it had rejected all financial claims made by Rwanda, which had argued Britain still needed to honour the terms of the deal which Prime Minister Keir Starmer cancelled in 2024. After taking office that year, Starmer scrapped the prior Conservative government's asylum plan, under which Rwanda would have been paid to take in migra...

May 14, 2026 12:13 PM

English voters where Labour lost say PM Starmer has to go

For disillusioned voters in the east of England, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's mistakes since his Labour Party's landslide election victory in July 2024 started early, were repeated often, and now mean he cannot carry on in the job. Many cited the decision to scrap fuel support payments for elderly people, which was made after less than a month in power, as an encapsulation of the missteps of the Starmer government. That decision, and the subsequent reversal in the face of its unpopularity nea...

May 12, 2026 3:12 PM

UK’s Starmer defies calls to quit, says he is getting on with governing

Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would "get on with governing" despite a "destabilising" 48 hours of growing calls to set out a timetable for his departure after an election drubbing. At a meeting of his cabinet team of ministers, Starmer, in the top job for less than two years, repeated that while he took responsibility for one of his Labour Party's worst election defeats, there had been no official move to trigger a leadership contest. "The ...

May 11, 2026 5:57 PM

UK PM Keir Starmer rules out quitting, promises renewed focus on reforms

Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to be bolder to turn around Britain's fortunes, making an impassioned plea to both his Labour Party and voters on Monday to stick with him and avoid a leadership contest he said would only bring chaos. Speaking at a community centre in London, Starmer all but admitted he had been too timid in tackling the myriad of problems besetting Britain since he won a large majority in 2024, and said he took responsibility for one of the worst defeats for Labour in last...

May 4, 2026 9:43 AM

UK set to enter talks to join the European Union’s $105.9 billion Ukraine loan

Britain is set to enter talks to join the European Union's 78 billion pound loan ($106 billion) to Ukraine, the government said on Sunday, in a further sign of deepening European defence ties under rising U.S. pressure. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected on Monday to tell a summit in Armenia's capital Yerevan of the European Political Community - a discussion forum set up after Russia's invasion in 2022 - that Britain wants to work with the EU to support Ukraine in getting vital military e...

April 28, 2026 10:36 AM

UK PM Starmer faces vote on possible parliamentary probe over Mandelson

Britain's parliament will vote on Tuesday on a possible inquiry into Prime Minister Keir Starmer, looking at whether he misled the House of Commons over the appointment of former U.S. ambassador Peter Mandelson. Any such inquiry could have serious implications for Starmer's future. He has so far resisted pressure to quit over his decision to hire Mandelson, but if found to have knowingly misled parliament his position would likely become untenable. House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said h...

April 16, 2026 6:27 PM

Iran war exposes weakened state of Britain’s armed forces

The Iran war has left Britain's armed forces exposed, heaping pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to act on his promises to invest in defence, after years of warnings from military bosses about the UK's shrinking capabilities. When a British military base in Cyprus was hit by a drone early on in the Iran conflict in March, Britain, whose navy was the largest in the world at the start of World War Two, took three weeks to deploy one warship to the eastern Mediterranean. France, Greece and I...

April 25, 2025 6:32 PM

UK PM Keir Starmer calls PM Modi, strongly condemns “barbaric terror attack”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a call from the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday. The British PM condemned the heinous Pahalgam terror attack and expressed the UK's solidarity with India during this tragic time. The details of the call were shared by the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, in a post on X. “PM @Keir_Starmer of the UK called PM @narendramodi and conveyed his sincere condolences for the innocent lives lost in the heinous t...