UK Labour suspends 4 lawmakers over welfare rebellion
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Keir Starmer rewrote the history books on July 5 last year when he delivered a majority of 174 for Labour in the House of Commons. The scale of the landslide meant it was widely assumed that, as the Institute for Government put it, he would “find operating in Parliament more straightforward than recent prime ministers”. But it has not come to pass.
British prime minister Keir Starmer attempts to reassert authority but risks reopening wounds by suspending rebel MPs
The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’
Sir Keir Starmer has defending suspending four Labour MPs over "persistent breaches of discipline." Speaking to reporters, Sir Keir said he had to "deal with people who repeatedly broke the whip, because everyone was elected as a Labour MP on the manifesto of change, and everybody needs to deliver as a Labour government".
Marta Elena Feitó’s statements provoked a wave of popular indignation, with even President Díaz-Canel distancing himself from the politician
The voting age will be lowered from 18 in time for the next general election, under plans announced by Sir Keir and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. Sir Keir said: “I think it’s really important that 16 and 17-year-olds have the vote, because they are old enough to go out to work, they are old enough to pay taxes, so pay in.”
As per reports, the decision is part of a broader initiative to reform voting laws, aiming to increase civic engagement and remove obstacles that prevent people from voting. The government has described the move as an effort to 'modernise the country's democracy'.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has toured a panda breeding facility in the final stages of an extended state visit that has cast China as a fellow champion of a global fair trade system un
The Reform UK leader has delivered a verbal blow to Labour this morning after Angela Rayner unveiled controversial new plans.
Starmer's on a charm offensive. But his rank and file think No 10's 'a mess' and are contemptuous of their frontbench colleagues