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Keir Starmer is looking increasingly isolated over his handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal with divisions emerging in cabinet over his decision to sack the Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins.

Cabinet allies and Labour heavyweights are turning against Sir Keir Starmer following Sir Olly Robbins’s explosive testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

You can’t kill something that is already dead. New details about Peter Mandelson’s disastrous appointment as Britain’s ambassador to Washington can trigger more paroxysms of outrage in Westminster.

The former top civil servant in the Foreign Office has stated that Downing Street exerted significant pressure on his staff to support Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US Ambassador.

Keir Starmer’s team saw him as the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister when he took office in July 2024. But while winning an election is one thing, governing the country has proven to require a very different skill set.

Sir Keir Starmer will battle to save his job in Parliament on Monday by setting out further details of the “unforgivable” error by officials in not telling him Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting.

Downing Street is striving to secure agreements on steel and electric cars with the EU as it aims to strengthen the post-Brexit economic relationship.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “skulking” around Scotland and avoiding Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a brief visit north of the border.

The Peter Mandelson security vetting scandal is the biggest crisis for the diplomatic service in decades, a former Foreign Office chief has said.

Donald Trump has welcomed Iran’s foreign minister’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be "completely open" for the "remaining period of ceasefire".

Daniel Devaney, standing in the local elections for Nigel Farage’s party in Bradford, posted on Facebook about ‘blasting’ followers of Islam off the face of the Earth.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he is “not going to yield” to pressure from Donald Trump, after the US president threatened to change the terms of the trade deal.

Former defence secretaries and Labour grandees have rallied behind a former NATO secretary general, who has warned that the UK’s security is “in peril” due to “corrosive complacency” from Sir Keir Starmer.

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A treaty concerning the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has become "impossible to agree at the political level," and the associated bill will not complete its passage through parliament, a Foreign Office minister has stated.

More voters think Keir Starmer made the right calls in responding to Donald Trump’s war in Iran, a new poll has found.

A year ago, many prominent figures on the British right were vocal fans of Donald Trump, praising his plans to cut waste and tackle illegal migration.