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Express Politics12 May 2026

'Furtive' Rachel Reeves spotted 'slinking into Downing Street' with 'no sign of fight'

The Chancellor entered Downing Street with a 'lowered head and hunched shoulders' as Sir Keir Starmer's premiership continues to hang in the balance.

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Guido Fawkes12 May 2026

Defiant Starmer Tells Labour MPs to Put Up or Shut Up

Starmer’s words at the top of today’s Cabinet meeting were, according to the readout: “As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised. The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and…

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Guido Fawkes12 May 2026

Streeting Arrives at Number 10 for Showdown Cabinet

Cabinet is ongoing at the time of going to pixel. 81 MPs (and counting) have called for Starmer to go. To be a fly on the wall in Number 10…

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

UK borrowing costs hit highest since 1998 amid Starmer uncertainty

Bond yields soar and pound falls against dollar as investors brace for potential Labour leadership change Business live – latest updates UK politics live – latest updates Long-term UK borrowing costs have soared to the highest level in nearly three decades while the pound and stocks fell, as investors braced for a potential change of leadership, with cabinet ministers urging Keir Starmer to quit. Starmer is consulting colleagues before a crunch cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning that comes af

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

Starmer’s on the brink and who knows what will happen next: hope for the best Britain, and prep for the worst | Frances Ryan

As senior cabinet ministers move against the PM, his words of defiance seem moot. I’m planning ahead – which is more than he ever did A news report last week described how growing instability means millions of Britons are building up a stash of cash, tinned food and torches at home. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought there is no better litmus test of how things are going for a country than whether the populace is stockpiling emergency rations. Watching Keir Starmer stubbornly cling

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

Labour must offer more than ‘better managed decline’ on economy, MPs urge

Soft-left Tribune group issues thinly disguised attack on Keir Starmer, calling for bold policy renewal Business live – latest updates UK politics live – latest updates An influential group of MPs has said that Labour needs an urgent renewal of economic strategy to offer voters “more than better management of decline” before the next general election. With Keir Starmer fighting to ward off a leadership challenge, the leading backbenchers from the soft-left Tribune group published a series of

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Express Politics12 May 2026

Keir Starmer's biggest fans – the 2 MPs still trying to convince him not to quit

Keir Starmer's own Cabinet is tightening the screws, but loyalists are clinging on.

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

Close Starmer ally declines to say if he will lead Labour into next election

Chief secretary, Darren Jones, says PM is ‘listening to colleagues’ but will make own decisions on way forward UK politics live – latest updates One of Keir Starmer’s closest aides has declined to say whether he would lead his party into the next election amid mounting calls for him to resign. The prime minister is “listening to colleagues” who are asking him to set out a timetable for departure but would make his own decisions about the way forward, the prime minister’s chief secretary has sa

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Express Politics12 May 2026

Nigel Farage won't fear new Labour leader – but Brits will be even worse off

The price we'll have to pay for an early election will be one of total chaos.

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

Scotland’s elections confirmed that our nation’s leftwing identity is part myth, part reality | Rory Scothorne

There is optimism even after Nigel Farage’s party swept to victory in many postindustrial areas – as radical progressives won more seats than ever James IV, King of Scots, never had to worry about elections. This freed him up to satisfy his voracious curiosity with strange experiments: according to one old tale, in 1493 he trapped two children, and a nurse who couldn’t talk, on Inchkeith Island in the Firth of Forth. James hoped that the children, deprived of modern influences on their speech, w

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The Guardian Politics12 May 2026

Keir Starmer to face crucial cabinet meeting as ministers and MPs urge him to resign – UK politics live

PM on the brink with Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood believed to be among those urging him to set out a timetable for departure Starmer on the brink as cabinet ministers urge him to quit Good morning. “Stories beat spreadsheets,” Keir Starmer declared in his speech yesterday. But yesterday was a day when the spreadsheets had the upper hand. Most news organisations were using them to keep a track of Labour MPs who were coming out and calling for Starmer’s resignation and, after his speech in

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Conservative Home12 May 2026

Starmer is beneath the hooves of the Westminster herd

Having cheered the downfall of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister now confronts the same fate himself. If this is meant to be Starmer fighting for survival, one wonders what surrender would look like. The post Starmer is beneath the hooves of the Westminster herd appeared first on Conservative Home.

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