Sutton Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl made the claim as he criticised the Government’s plans to charge VAT on private school fees.

With the costs of government borrowing and inflation going up and grumbles from the business community about last October’s Budget growing louder by the day, Keir Starmer was asked if Rachel Reeves would still be chancellor come the next election.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong protections", including from "malign influence", for a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia,

Relations between presidents and prime ministers aren’t always easy, even without Elon Musk weighing in with his views.

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Britain being an independent country terrifies Starmer because he knows the buck stops with him, and he can’t blame faceless EU bureaucrats when he cocks up, which currently he’s doing on an alarmingly regular basis.

Keir Starmer is set to sell out Brexit by signing Britain up to a youth mobility scheme with the EU after months of promising not to. Thew PM is reportedly planning on agreeing to a ‘youth exchange’ with Brussels which would largely mirror the requested youth mobility scheme demanded by the EU.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch urged the Prime Minister to drop his ‘anti-growth’ Employment Rights Bill.

A Number 10 spokesperson defends Lord Hermer KC following a series of negative press briefings - including that he is holding up government policy.

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Sir Keir Starmer has snubbed Donald Trump by refusing to accept a gift from him during the US election campaign...

Keir Starmer has insisted that the economy is 'beginning to turn around', and that growth remains his government's number one priority at a meeting with senior executives this morning.