Jess Phillips has resigned as a Home Office minister.  In a letter addressed to the prime minister, Phillips called on Keir ...

Keir Starmer has suffered his first resignations as the calls for him to step down as prime minister grow. Tom Rutland, a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in the Department for Environment, Food ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The first minister to resign from Keir Starmer’s government has called for the prime minister to step down and oversee “an ...

Keir Starmer vowed to prove his “doubters” wrong in a make-or-break speech on Monday morning.  The prime minister warned of ...

Keir Starmer has insisted that he will not “walk away” as prime minister after Labour suffered significant losses in the 2026 ...

A Labour MP once considered to be close ally of Keir Starmer has called for him to resign as prime minister.  Josh Simons, ...

Catherine West has threatened to launch a leadership bid that could topple the prime minister.  The Labour MP issued a ...

A prime minister under not inconsiderable political pressure faces a leadership challenge from an obscure backbench MP posing as a proxy for more prominent pretenders.  These words accurately describe ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Angela Rayner has criticised what she calls a “toxic culture of cronyism” in a 1000-word statement issued after this week’s ...

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of sponsoring a Dogs Trust event in parliament highlighting an important and overlooked ...

The 2011 Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011 scheduled a UK General Election for the first Thursday of May, five years after the previous election. The Act mandated that early elections could be called ...

Since 1922, Britain’s Labour Party has either formed the country’s Government or constituted the Official Opposition. The Party has been in power for just over a third of the period since the Second ...