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Keir Starmer has been accused of planning to sack Wes Streeting over alleged plotting to seize the Labour leadership from under him. The Prime Minister is said to be eyeing a reshuffle that would demote the Health Secretary and return Angela Rayner to the fold, despite claims she too had designs on No10. "We're hearing he wants to show strength and get shot of Wes,” a Labour source has suggested. Both Mr Streeting and Ms Rayner have routinely rejected any suggestions that they were seeking to supplant Sir Keir, yet speculation has remained rampant ahead of the upcoming Gorton & Denton by-election, which is being held on February 26. This reached fever pitch earlier this month, when the Prime Minister narrowly clung onto power amid intense renewed scrutiny over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. The crisis saw Cabinet ministers lining up to profess their loyalty and Sir Keir engage in crunch talks with Labour MPs to preserve his premiership. Party in...

Tories plot to 'hammer nail in coffin' of Chagos deal within hours as crunch Washington meeting could prove fatal for Keir Starmer's 'surrender' pact Sir Keir Starmer’s £35billion Chagos deal faces a “relentless” challenge after a top Tory told GB News she intends to put the “nail in the coffin” of the Prime Minister’s handover of the Indian Ocean archipelago. Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel is jetting off to Washington tomorrow to meet with senior officials in Donald Trump’s administration. Dame Priti’s trip comes after concerted efforts by Tory veteran Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to encourage the White House to move against the Prime Minister’s deal. The Witham MP, who is also scheduled to discuss the significance of the special relationship at the Hudson Institute next Wednesday, made clear to GB News that she will “keep fighting against the deal until it is scrapped once and for all”. Speaking to The People’s Channel ...

Starmer’s obsession with international law has reduced Britain’s utility as an ally Daily Telegraph 19/02/26 Starmer is now in a real bind over the Chagos Islands Credit: Reuters In blocking US forces from using RAF airbases to bomb Iran, Sir Keir Starmer has surpassed himself. The Government is reportedly concerned that facilitating strikes could be a breach of international law. As a result, it has diminished the ability of the United States to conduct combat operations, reduced Britain’s utility as an ally and demolished Sir Keir’s flagship Chagos policy. It is an outstanding illustration of the legalistic, process-driven approach of the Prime Minister. One of the earliest actions in office of Sir Keir, and his Attorney General Richard Hermer, was the revision of Britain’s attitude to international law. The result has been paralysis, with the state effectively unable to act within the constraints it has imposed upon itself. From Sir Keir’s decision on the use of RAF bases, it...

The plot to topple the next Right-wing government has already begun Daily Telegraph 18/02/26 Britain is not merely broken: it has been hacked to pieces by a nihilistic ruling class committed to dismembering our society. The methodical ruthlessness of the Left-wing barbarians responsible, the relentlessness of their vandalism, the thoroughness of their infiltration of our institutions is such that it will take at least a decade for a future Right-wing Government to rebuild the UK, as well as extraordinary competence, planning and strategic nous. The odds are stacked against such a project, but it is our only hope. Any potential Right-wing government, Reform, born-again Tory, or a combination thereof, must grasp the scale of the task ahead. The original sin was the ousting of Margaret Thatcher by Europhile Conservative wets in 1990, after which the elites blundered relentlessly. Almost every important decision of the past 36 years, by Labour, Tories and coalition Lib Dems alike – ...

Only weeks after defecting, former Tory beats party stalwarts Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf to top post Daily Telegraph 17/02/26 Robert Jenrick is to be unveiled as Reform UK’s shadow chancellor just over a month after defecting from the Conservatives. The former Tory cabinet minister has beaten former Reform leader Richard Tice and head of policy Zia Yusuf to the job despite having only been in the party for weeks. Mr Yusuf will be instead named as Reform’s shadow home secretary and Mr Tice will be given a new brief merging the business, energy and industry portfolios. The party will also unveil a new foreign affairs spokesman. The appointment, first revealed by The Telegraph, will be seen as an attempt by Nigel Farage to boost his party’s economic credibility. Reform UK has been ahead in the opinion polls since May but voters still see the Conservatives as more trustworthy on the economy. Mr Farage will use a press conference on Tuesday to try and persuade voters he shows he has...

The move follows The Telegraph’s campaign against Labour’s attack on democracy Daily Telegraph 16/02/26 Having spent weeks defending its decision to cancel elections to around 30 local councils in England, the Government has unexpectedly abandoned the idea in the latest U-turn staged by No 10. This newspaper has campaigned from the outset against what was by any measure an attack on democracy. Lawyers acting for Reform UK were proposing to argue that the Government was misusing powers under the Local Government Act 2000 that were never intended to allow the postponement of elections other than in exceptional circumstances. Labour had claimed that the looming reorganisation of local authorities would make elections expensive, complicated and unnecessary. Steve Reed, the Local Government Secretary, had already told MPs that he was tabling powers under the Act and was still defending his decision last week. But, in a letter published yesterday, he said that he was withdrawing his de...