January, as the full impact of Rachel Reeves’s tax-raising October Budget began to hit home, consumer and business sentiment ...

Keir Starmer has refused to urgently boost military spending amid a defence crisis in Europe. Government sources said he was still planning to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on the Armed Forces ...

Lord Dannatt said: 'Unless Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves can find ways of producing more money, well beyond 2.5 per cent towards 3 per cent or 3.5 per cent for starters, then this Strategic ...

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Sir Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to put "our own troops on the ground if necessary" in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war with Russia. Ahead of an "emergency meeting" of European ...

Keir Starmer’s Labour government has committed to raising defence spending to 2.5% of economic output from around 2.3% now but has not yet set out a timetable. British Prime Minister Keir ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands giveaway was plunged into fresh controversy on Saturday night after the former Mauritian prime minister who masterminded the deal was interrogated in a money ...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday he was ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force as talks aimed at ending the conflict were ...

Red tape, soaring costs and Nimbys – it’s no wonder Britain’s dreams of modern infrastructure never seem to leave the station ...

Across successive PMQs scuffles, Kemi Badenoch has characterised her opponent, the prime minister, as in hock to some clandestine sect of North London solicitors. Keir Starmer is a “lawyer”, the ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son LONDON -- British Prime Minister Keir ...