Starmer set for showdown with leadership rival Wes Streeting – The Irish Times
UK prime minister and Labour leader Keir Starmer is set for crunch talks with health secretary Wes Streeting,…
Minister quits and tells Starmer to resign as prime minister faces widening revolt – The Irish Times
Main Points British prime minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces his cabinet this morning as he…
Challenge Starmer’s leadership by Monday or I’ll do it myself, Labour MP tells colleagues
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How a French journalist was accidentally signed up as a Reform UK candidate – The Irish Times
The email landed on April 1st. Unfortunately for London-based French journalist Cécile Ducourtieux, it was no joke. “Dear…
Inheritance tax warning as millions of savers unaware of upcoming pension raids
A substantial majority of British workers remain unaware of pension reforms that will expose retirement savings to inheritance…
Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council – The Art Newspaper
The right-wing council running the county of Kent in southeast England has removed a key early work by…
‘Pensions belong to savers, not the state!’
Ministers have introduced amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill that would limit their ability to direct how defined…
Rachel Reeves’s pensions inheritance tax raids force savers to withdraw £2.3billion from retirement funds
Savers withdrew £2.3billion from their pension pots at the earliest opportunity last year amid growing concern over changes…
Suddenly, Great Yarmouth’s obesity rates made sense – The Irish Times
The Hewett family ran the largest commercial fishing fleet in the world off the east coast of England…
‘Rachel Reeves has made more of a mess than Liz Truss ever did
What a huge financial mess we find ourselves in as a country and Rachel Reeves, our so-called Chancellor,…
Petrol and diesel prices surge to 18-month high in blow to millions of drivers
Millions of drivers have been hit by the highest petrol and diesel prices in 18 months, as filling…
Critics ask why Starmer is in Ireland as questions about Mandelson pile up back at home – The Irish Times
UK prime minister Keir Starmer was in Belfast and then Cork on Thursday, far from the madding crowd…