Tag: Keir Starmer

UK Conservative Lawmaker Dies After Being ‘Stabbed Multiple Times’

A British Conservative MP has died after being stabbed multiple times on Friday when meeting members of the public in his constituency. Sir David Amess, 69, who represented Southend West in Essex, was fatally attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. The father-of-five is the second sitting MP to be killed in such circumstances in…


UK Conservative Lawmaker ‘Stabbed Multiple Times’

A British Conservative MP was stabbed multiple times in an incident on Friday when meeting members of the public in his constituency, according to UK media reports. Sir David Amess, who represents Southend West in Essex, was attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. According to Sky News, a man walked into the meeting place…


Labour Leader Calls for More Urgency to Plug UK Haulage Driver Shortages

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has repeated his call for greater urgency from the government to tackle haulage driver shortages, ahead of a visit to an HGV training center. He dismissed as a “sticking plaster” a recent government announcement that it will increase places on a fast-track “skills boot camp” by 2,000 to 5,000…


Starmer Urges Labour Party to Stop ‘Squabbling’ Over Past

Keir Starmer has urged the Labour party to stop “squabbling over its own past,” saying “harmful and alienating” ideological contestation has made the party feel like “separate families living under one roof.” In an essay published ahead of Labour’s annual party conference in Brighton, Starmer called for unity and urged party factions to stop focusing…


Starmer’s Plan to Rewrite Labour Leadership Rules Sparks Left-Wing Backlash

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer plans to reform the way the party’s leader is elected, but is facing stiff resistance from the left wing of the party, which has warned the move could trigger a “civil war.” The current “one member, one vote” system introduced under former Labour leader Ed Miliband was widely seen as…


9/11 Terrorists Failed to Undermine Freedom and Democracy: UK’s Johnson

The perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks failed to undermine freedom and democracy and failed to make the world live in fear, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a message marking the 20th anniversary of the attack. He said the terrorists “tried to destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies…


Labour ‘Will Not Support Rise in National Insurance to Pay for Social Care’ in the UK

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told the Prime Minister his party will oppose plans to increase national insurance to fund social care. In a letter to Boris Johnson, who is set to reveal his plans to fix the crumbling social care system in the Commons on Tuesday, Starmer said Labour supported tax increases to…


UK Firms Warned of Legal Risks If They Adopt ‘Jabs for Jobs’ Policy

British businesses requiring their employees to receive COVID-19 vaccines will face potential legal actions over discrimination, the co-chairman of the UK government’s flexible working taskforce has warned. Peter Cheese, who also serves as chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), said he would “strongly caution companies against adopting a ‘jabs for…


UK Ministers Reject Former Aide’s Allegations on COVID-19 Response

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock have defended themselves against allegations made by Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former top advisor in Number 10. Giving evidence on Wednesday to the health and science committees of the House of Commons, Cummings said the government had failed the public during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)…


UK Won’t Allow Anti-Semitism to ‘Grow and Fester’: Johnson

The British government will not let anti-Semitism take root, grow, and fester in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. UK politicians across the political spectrum have condemned recent incidents of anti-Semitic abuse and violence. At the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called…