After the royal pomp, Trump’s state visit turns to politics and a meeting with Starmer

[ad_1] US President Trump and first lady Melania Trump (Image credits: AP) LONDON: After the pomp, it’s time for the politics. President Donald Trump will meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, the final day of the U.S. leader’s state visit to Britain, with tech investment, steel tariffs and potentially tricky topics on the agenda. […]

Starmer condemns Musk’s comments as ‘dangerous’, but says won’t sanction him

[ad_1] LONDON: UK PM Keir Starmer on Monday condemned “dangerous” comments by Elon Musk after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die. But the UK govt resisted opposition calls to sanction Musk for the remarks. Starmer denounced violence on the fringes […]

Ukraine-Russia conflict: Zelenskyy arrives in London, meets UK PM Starmer ahead of Trump-Putin’s Alaska summit

[ad_1] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Thursday, exchanging a handshake and a warm embrace before heading inside for talks. This high profile meeting comes just a day before a key US-Russia summit in Alaska that could affect the Kyiv-Moscow conflict, as a show of strong support as […]

Gaza crisis: UK to recognise Palestinian state if Israel fails to act on ceasefire; PM Keir Starmer terms statehood as ‘inalienable right’

[ad_1] File photo: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Picture credit: AP) In a major policy shift, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced that the United Kingdom will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward a […]

UK PM Keir Starmer orders national enquiry: From Elon to enquiry – a brief history of Pakistani grooming gangs in Great Britain | World News

[ad_1] After years of public outcry, multiple local reviews, and political hesitation, the UK government has announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs and institutional failures that enabled decades of child sexual exploitation.The decision, announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on June 14, marks a dramatic shift in tone for his administration—one that […]

Global powers urge restraint after US strikes Iran; Tehran vows retaliation; PM Modi, Starmer, Erdogan respond to crisis

[ad_1] The United States launched targeted airstrikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites — Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan — early Sunday, intensifying its role in the Israel-Iran conflict. The attacks, confirmed by President Donald Trump, involved B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and bunker-busting GBU-57 bombs. Donald Trump hailed it as a “very successful attack,” while Iran […]

Watch: Starmer scrambles to pick up Trump’s papers as UK-US trade deal signed at G7 Summit; ‘Had no choice,’ UK PM explains

[ad_1] In an unexpected moment of political choreography, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was seen crouching on the floor to retrieve documents spilled by US President Donald Trump during a joint announcement of a new UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada.The two leaders had just declared the official signing of the […]

Russia denies involvement in arson at properties linked to UK Prime Minister Starmer | World News

[ad_1] LONDON : A top Kremlin official on Monday scoffed at a report that Russia could be involved in recent arson attacks on the private home of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a building where he once lived and a car that he had owned. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a Financial Times […]

Labour U-Turn: How UK PM Keir Starmer went hard right on immigration | World News

[ad_1] For the better part of a decade, the UK’s Labour Party had perfected the art of losing.Despite Brexit chaos, five Tory prime ministers, Boris Johnson’s Downing Street circus, Liz Truss’s lettuce-inflicted collapse, a pandemic, and a brutal cost-of-living crisis, Labour remained stuck in opposition—haunted by its own ideological baggage and public mistrust.Voters flirted with […]

UK’s Starmer condemns ‘attack on our democracy’ after fires at homes linked to him | World News

[ad_1] UK’s Starmer condemns ‘attack on our democracy’ after fires at homes linked to him (Photo: AP) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told lawmakers Wednesday that recent arson attacks on properties linked to him represent “an attack on all of us, on democracy and the values that we stand for.” The remarks by Starmer during […]