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Sky News Politics14 May 2026

GDP figures show unexpected growth, as Reeves warns 'now is not the time to put economy at risk'

The UK economy unexpectedly grew during first month of the Iran war, new official figures reveal.

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Express Politics14 May 2026

Miliband locks in North Sea drilling ban by law: 'wilful destruction'

Ed Miliband is to make his North Sea drilling ban permanent in law, as Tories warn the move amounts to the destruction of Britain's domestic energy supplies.

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Express Politics14 May 2026

Streeting throws down the gauntlet - Miliband, Burnham, Starmer ready themselves for war

Wes Streeting is set to resign on Thursday and trigger a Labour leadership contest, with Ed Miliband, Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer all expected to do battle.

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BBC Politics13 May 2026

Starmer warns against leadership contest in pleas to ministers and MPs

Sir Keir battles to save his job, as Health Secretary Wes Streeting is thought to be plotting a leadership challenge potentially as early as Thursday.

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BBC Politics13 May 2026

Starmer warns of 'chaos' amid speculation about challenge

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is thought to be plotting a Labour leadership challenge as early as Thursday.

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BBC Politics13 May 2026

Starmer hopes to save his job with promise of change - and warnings of chaos

There is a big moment coming in the next 24 hours, for Sir Keir Starmer and for would-be challengers to the prime minister.

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BBC Politics13 May 2026

Starmer hopes to save his job with promise of change - and warnings of chaos

There is a big moment coming in the next 24 hours, for Sir Keir Starmer and for would-be challengers to the prime minister.

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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026

As Westminster rages, and Labour sinks into civil war: what about the people? | Aditya Chakrabortty

Voters are desperate for a turnaround in living standards. The runners and riders for the Labour leadership must address this “Westminster is a cocoon. Lots of people in lovely jobs, so it becomes easy to forget the world outside.” Catherine West should know. She’s been an MP for 11 years, even if you hadn’t heard of her until this weekend when the Labour backbencher threatened Keir Starmer for the leadership, firing the first shots in the civil war that now engulfs the government. Before Wes St

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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026

‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny

One of PM’s expanding cohort of critics in Labour party says policy programme ‘sums up where we have gone wrong’ For Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, his second king’s speech, in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation of everything that was wrong with the prime minister’s strategy. Over 34 bills and three draft ones, Starmer set out a programme he said would “make this country stronger and fairer”. But the package, which inc

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Express Politics13 May 2026

Wes Streeting slapped down as Kemi Badenoch warns him 'do your job!'

Conservative leader takes aim at Health Secretary over his reported leadership ambitions

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Conservative Home13 May 2026

Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk

In Matviichuk, Ukraine has found not only a witness to its suffering, but a voice articulating the stakes of a much larger struggle. For this is not merely a war over territory. It is, as she sees it, a defining contest between law and power, between dignity and domination. The post Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics13 May 2026

Nightmare for Keir Starmer as another leadership rival sets out ‘save Labour’ plan

Military Cross winner Al Carns has delivered a vision to rescue hs party as it takes a battering from current crisis

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