With the costs of government borrowing and inflation going up and grumbles from the business community about last October’s Budget growing louder by the day, Keir Starmer was asked if Rachel ...

1 day ago · I n May 2022, amid an investigation by Durham Constabulary into whether Sir Keir Starmer had breached Covid rules when he shared a beer and curry with activists the previous year, the Labour leader and his deputy Angela Rayner had promised to resign if they were issued with fixed penalty notices.. The contrast with Boris Johnson was striking. Yet the promise plunged Labour into panic.

4 days ago · Growth is a fight Starmer and Reeves want to have - and they can't afford to lose. Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer need the growth they are promising if they want to ...

5 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “clear out the regulatory weeds” to encourage growth, as Rachel Reeves will say that Britain has been “held back” and “accepted stagnation” in a major ...

4 days ago · Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs after Rachel Reeves has delivered a string of jabs at the Tories. In a speech earlier today the Chancellor announced the Government would back a third ...

Jan 13, 2025 · Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are the duo that best personify the Labour project of the 2020s

Jan 17, 2025 · Sir Keir Starmer has been eyeing-up 10-years in Downing Street as the Prime Minister vows to spearhead a "decade of national renewal". Starmer, who romped to victory in the 2024 General Election, suffering from one of the earliest …

Jan 13, 2025 · Rachel Reeves will stay on as chancellor for the whole of this parliament, Downing Street has clarified after the prime minister refused to guarantee her future. Earlier on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer said he had "full confidence" in his colleague, but would not be drawn on whether she would stay in post until the next general election.

Jan 13, 2025 · Rachel Reeves ’ future as Chancellor was thrown into doubt by the Prime Minister on Monday during another day of economic turmoil. Sir Keir Starmer twice refused to guarantee that Ms...

Feb 1, 2024 · LONDON — She was once a Labour Party outcast, dismissed by Jeremy Corbyn as too right-wing and famously derided by a TV executive as “boring, snoring.” But now Rachel Reeves is on course to be Britain’s first female chancellor, via a close partnership with leader Keir Starmer which shows no signs of cracking under pressure as the election looms.