Senior aides and supporters of the UK Prime Minister have gone on the attack to discourage a challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, as MPs consider dumping the Labour leader.

While cycling through prime ministers became a habit of the UK’s recent Conservative governments, disgruntled Labour lawmakers have much more substantial hurdles to overcome before they can force a change.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says suggestions from Keir Starmer's allies that he is seeking to topple the PM are "nonsense".

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would urge U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for a billion dollars over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech

LONDON (Reuters) -British health minister Wes Streeting said on Wednesday any talk of a challenge against Prime Minister Keir Starmer was not true, after media outlets reported he could seek to bring him down after the budget later this month.

Treasury officials are said to be questioning the cost of backing the plan — despite support from several ministers.

The British pound weakened for a second consecutive day due to weak labor market data and political unrest involving Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The decline is linked to the upcoming budget and bond performance.

Exclusively pieced together timeline of the visit by the UK Prime Minister and Defence Secretary to HMS Prince of Wales as the nation’s flagship begins its CSG 25 deployment. On Wednesday Apr. 23, 2025, as HMS Prince of Wales (R09) sailed in the English ...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer distanced himself on Wednesday from a briefing by unnamed allies that he would fight any leadership bid, throwing his support behind his health minister Wes Streeting who had been named as a challenger.