Keir Starmer

We need Britain to get real about Brexit

Budgets in both Britain and Ireland have postponed difficult decisions in a manner that will reduce their room for manoeuvre when the next election looms

Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines

UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’

Fish disco freakout: Starmer looks to change tune on obstacles to industrial investment

Laois man John Fingleton’s recommendations to cut the cost of nuclear development will be applied across Britain’s industrial strategy

What’s the Monarchy for? on BBC One: You can’t help but think, better them than us

Television: David Dimbleby’s rambling survey of the British crown is a free shot of smugness, served just before bedtime

Failure to join EU rearmament fund shows UK stuck in post-Brexit strategic cul-de-sac

EU and Canada seek greater autonomy from US, while Britain highlights ‘number one spear carrier’ role for Washington

Keir Starmer on the back foot: PM pleads for trust as budget backlash engulfs Labour

Claims of budget misrepresentation spark a bruising clash with Westminster press

All eyes on Reeves as she seeks £30bn to plug spending gap ahead of UK budget

All the leaking, pitch-rolling and backtracking in the pre-budget run-up has investors, employers and union bosses bewildered

SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’

Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets

How the hardening of the UK’s immigration laws will affect Ireland

Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit deal may scupper Westminster’s plans

Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland

What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?

Labour wrestles with its conscience over deportation of asylum seeker families

Kindertransport survivor calls policy ‘shabby’ as home secretary defends crackdown aimed at deterring Reform UK

UK toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises

Move by Keir Starmer’s Labour government seeks to stem rise of populist Reform UK party

Keir Starmer defies calls to sack Irish chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

Calls from Labour MPs for Irishman Morgan McSweeney’s resignation

Keir Starmer denies authorising ‘kneecap’ attack on health secretary amid leadership crisis

UK PM’s allies say he will fight attempts to replace him as Labour leader in advance of crucial budget

Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’

The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager

Rest in Paris: fancy your chances of being buried beside Oscar Wilde or Jim Morrison?

Plus: the thing Catherine Connolly and Keir Starmer have in common; the ‘lion’ on the loose in Co Clare; and a big job opening at the EPA

‘God only knows what will be tried’: EU leaders’ safety in Ireland comes under spotlight

Friendly warships and threats from drones: planning steps up for major summit in Ireland next year as part of the EU presidency

Zohran Mamdani is a throwback to a time when politicians weren’t all managerial centrists

I cannot help but bristle at those who take solace in boring politicians, as evidence of a stable system

One man remains in custody after mass stabbing on train in England, police say

Knife attack took place near Peterborough on service bound for London and left 11 people injured

Downing Street backs Rachel Reeves after she apologises for letting home without licence

With crucial budget looming, chancellor faces pressure over ‘inadvertent mistake’

UK police arrest wrongly-released sex offender who was meant to be sent for deportation

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu arrested in London nearly three days after being freed in error

‘I’ve got an amazing múinteoir’: Kara Owen, the new British ambassador to Ireland

Owen talks about her marriage to a Galwegian, the Irish phrases that were common in her Cumbrian childhood, and her daunting Irish-speaking debut with Michael D Higgins

Human rights activist Michael Farrell: ‘We were in a period of progress, but now we seem to be galloping backwards’

Lawyer Michael Farrell represented transgender woman Lydia Foy after earning his stripes during the Troubles in the North

Complication for Keir Starmer as Lucy Powell wins Labour’s deputy leadership race

Manchester Central MP was sacked from UK cabinet in September

Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?

Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man

Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales

Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership

‘Do you have any friends in the IRA?’: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe

The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine

Labour’s stunning byelection loss in Wales shows parties who cannot adapt will be crushed

UK politics is moving at speed, with voter loyalties shifting and atomising in unprecedented ways

Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK

Johnny Watterson: Westminster turns Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban into a political football

Knee-jerk reaction follows security decision to deny Israeli club’s fans tickets for Europa League clash with Aston Villa

Maccabi Tel Aviv match morphs into latest front in Britain’s culture wars

Israeli club does not want its fans to travel to Aston Villa match, but tensions have not gone away

Tel Aviv soccer derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting

Incident comes just fays after Maccabi fans were banned from attending November’s Europa League match at Aston Villa

Starmer calls for Israeli soccer fans to be allowed at Aston Villa match

Decision comes two weeks after attack on synagogue in Manchester

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary says

Shabana Mahmood says public trust will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

How the SNP is finally getting over its post-Sturgeon hangover

Labour’s implosion and the rise of Reform UK has gifted the party a clear path back to power in next May’s Holyrood elections

Israeli cabinet ratifies ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas

Ceasefire due to start day after Israeli ratification and hostages could be released 72 hours later

Kemi Badenoch pledges to rebuild Conservative Party’s reputation with debt ‘golden rule’

Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil

Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre

Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings

UK prosecutors to appeal decision to throw out terror case against Kneecap rapper

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (27) accused of displaying Hizbullah flag and saying ‘up Hamas’ at 2024 London gig

London’s two big Irish centres celebrate combined 100 years helping emigrants

Irish Cultural Centre and London Irish Centre are keeping an eye on future generations’ needs too

UK police to get new powers after latest pro-Palestinian protest

The powers will restrict repeat protests in the same place, the UK government says

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