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Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, in a statement outside 10 Downing Street.
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Keir Starmer announces his decision to quit in a speech outside No 10.
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A look back at the career of the man dubbed the 'King of the North', Andy Burnham.
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Baroness Jacqui Smith speaks about the prime minister and claims from US President Donald Trump that he will resign.
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As the former Ofcom chair says extraordinary things about the rightwing channel and its critics, a factcheck would not go amiss• Stewart Purvis is a former editor in chief of ITN; Chris Banatvala is a former Ofcom director of standardsDuring a review of his four years at Ofcom, the outgoing chair, Michael Grade, surprised his BBC Radio 4 interviewer. He had been asked by Katie Razzall whether Ofcom rules would allow a politician to present the Today programme apart from the news bulletins. She c
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On our side of the Irish Sea we have made the best of a bad job. But we saw the damage a reckless and reactionary British government could doTo read more from the Brexit Vote: 10 Years On series, click hereFor Brexit’s true believers, Ireland will always be the spoke in the wheel that set everything off course, the green tarnish that took the shine off the golden age. Without the vengeful and malicious obstructionism of the Irish, all the promises of freedom and prosperity would have been fulfil
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For the third time in four years, we appear on the brink of a prime minister announcing their plan to leave office, the BBC's political editor writes.
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Watch analysis from BBC political editor Chris Mason.
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If the Makerfield MP is to be our next PM, he needs some immediate and memorable cost of living policies to avoid his predecessor’s fatePause here before we rush headlong into the turbulent future. Stop and inhale last week’s rare political triumph, revel in the sunshine of cheery optimism. It was a precious but unfamiliar sensation when life on the progressive side of politics in Britain is so often a litany of hopes dashed and disappointments.Andy Burnham’s comprehensive victory in the Makerfi
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In just 48 hours, the PM has felt the weight of political gravity and shifted from initial adamance he would fight onUK politics live – latest updatesRapid change has hardly been unusual in British politics in recent years, but the change of tone from Keir Starmer and his supporters in just 48 hours has been striking – and appears to chart the shift in his position on his own future from one of defiance to glum acceptance. Continue reading...
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The Labour MP says the prime minister would be the "first to admit" her constituents did not vote for him.
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Doing the rounds of the Sunday studios, Peter Kyle sounded like someone who knew it would all be over come MondayUK politics – live updatesNot another one. Brenda from Bristol must be doing her nut. After sounding on Friday like the Japanese soldier who had no idea the second world war had ended decades earlier, sometime over the weekend reality had bitten for Keir Starmer. Maybe all he needed was a bit of time at Chequers to think straight. Maybe his family had also told him the game was over.
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Cabinet minister Peter Kyle says the PM is "mindful of the interests of the country" amid calls for him to quit.
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The BBC's Henry Zeffman and Nick Eardley on the mood in government as speculation grows about the prime minister's departure.
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Victory in Makerfield is propelling him towards No 10 but investors expect to know how he will fund his promisesBurnham allies confident of ‘coronation’Andy Burnham’s thumping victory in the Makerfield byelection came and went without the bond market rout Rachel Reeves’s backers had warned about.But as he moves towards the premiership, Burnham would be wise to set clear expectations about tax and spend, and to be upfront about the fact that not everyone can be a winner. Continue reading...
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Jacob Dunne condemns Farage’s call for ‘pure cold rage’ but says underlying causes of volatile behaviour must be acknowledgedWhen Nigel Farage said British people should respond to the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak with “pure cold rage”, it invited a chorus of condemnation from across the political divide.In a particularly tense moment in parliament, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, accused Farage of exploiting the tragedy for his own political advantage, in defiance of the wishes expressed
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Former top civil servant Simon Case says uncertainty over the country's leadership costs it money.
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After Andy Burnham’s by-election victory, support for the prime minister is evaporating, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
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Some said Britain’s departure would bring down the union, but countries are still queueing to joinOn the night of 23 June 2016, a storm broke out over Brussels. Rain poured and lightning flashed over the European Union headquarters. The next day dawned grey and calm, but the political weather was raging. Britain had voted to leave the EU.Nigel Farage, then leader of the UK Independence party (Ukip), declared the EU “finished” and “dead”. France’s Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders and