London, May 14 (IANS) United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned that a leadership challenge against him would plunge the Labour Party into “chaos,” as speculation mounted over a possible move to replace him following the party’s poor local election results. Speaking amid growing unrest within Labour on Wednesday (local time), Starmer urged ministers not to destabilise the party further. A leadership challenge on Thursday “would 100 per cent do that,” Sky News quoted him as saying.The…
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Washington, May 13 (IANS) The future of the strategically critical Diego Garcia military base surfaced unexpectedly during a heated Senate hearing, as Republican Senator John Kennedy warned against any move that could expand Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean through the Chagos Islands dispute.During a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defence hearing on President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defence budget, Kennedy sharply criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rep…
London, May 10 (IANS) Britain’s ruling Labour Party suffered major losses in local elections, while Reform UK made significant gains, according to final results released. Across around 5,000 council seats in 136 English councils and elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, Labour lost almost 1,500 council seats in England and surrendered control of around 40 local councils, including several traditional strongholds, in the elections on Thursday.The opposition Conservatives also endured h…
London, May 1 (IANS) A 45-year-old man was charged with attempted murder on Friday after he stabbed two Jewish men in London’s Golders Green. The suspect, identified as Essa Suleiman, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place related to an attack in Golders Green on April 29, according to a statement released by London’s Metropolitan Police.Suleiman was charged with attempted murder in related to a separate incident tha…
London, April 30 (IANS) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer called for stronger powers to tackle the ‘malign’ threat posed by states like Iran on Thursday, while addressing the nation about the Golders Green attack on Jews. He said that they know for a fact that these states want to harm British Jews, which is why he will fast-track the necessary legislation. He met with the community in Golders Green and expressed his sadness and solidarity with them.He stated in the vid…
London, April 30 (IANS) Two Jewish pedestrians were stabbed in the north-west London neighbourhood by a man, in the latest in a series of assaults targeting the community. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he was “deeply concerned” over the incident. The British counter-terrorism police have declared the incident a “terror attack”. The incident occurred earlier in the day in the north-west London neighbourhood, where a man armed with a knife randomly attacked Jewish pedestrians, Xinhua ne…
London, April 29 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will not be investigated over claims that he misled Parliament regarding Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, after a House of Commons vote on Tuesday.After more than five hours of debate, Members of Parliament voted 335 to 223 against a motion led by the Conservative Party that called for Starmer to be investigated by the House’s Privileges Committee.Starmer told British media on Monday that the vote was a “p…
London, April 28 (IANS) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the vote on the following day to decide whether he will be investigated is a “political stunt” by his “political opponents.””What’s my political opponents are doing tomorrow is a political stunt,” Starmer said.”Having a political stunt adds absolutely nothing to the transparency we’ve got. It’s not good use of parliament’s time.”British House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle announced earlier in the day that Starmer will face the v…
London, April 23 (IANS) Sayragul Sauytbay, Vice President of East Turkestan’s government-in-exile, has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of “disrespecting human rights” over the approval of a Chinese mega-Embassy in London, a report has highlighted. Speaking to UK’s ‘The Independent’, Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh, claimed to have witnessed serious abuses while being forced to work in one of China’s Xinjiang internment camps in 2017. She criticised Starmer for prioritising economic …
Paris, April 18 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron said that Iran’s announcement of reopening the Strait of Hormuz goes in the right direction. Macron made the remarks in a joint declaration following a conference co-hosted by France and Britain in Paris on Friday (local time), which brought together 49 countries to discuss securing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at…