London, June 22 (IANS) Keir Starmer on Monday announced that he is stepping down as the British Prime Minister and leader of the governing Labour Party. Making a statement outside 10 Downing Street, Starmer said that he will however remain in post as Prime Minister until a new Labour leader is chosen in the coming weeks.”The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, an…
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London, June 21 (IANS) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to resign on Monday and is reportedly preparing to present a timetable for an orderly departure from Downing Street, British media reports said.Starmer, who has long insisted he would fight any challenge to his leadership, now recognises his position is untenable after speaking with his government ministers, party funders, and trade union leaders over the past two days, the Observer reported.Starmer “has come up hard against the r…
London, June 11 (IANS) British Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Thursday over a disagreement about defence spending, saying the government had failed to commit sufficient resources at a time of rising security threats.In a letter to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Healey said the proposed Defence Investment Plan fell “well short” of the country’s needs. “You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country,” …
London, May 15 (IANS) Josh Simons, a British Labour member of parliament (MP), resigned so that Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham could replace him in his constituency through a by-election.This would pave the way for Burnham’s return to the House of Commons. He is widely seen as a potential challenger to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership in the Labour Party, Xinhua news agency reported.In Simons’ resignation letter on social media, the Makerfield MP said the government fai…
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…
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…
Canberra, March 17 (IANS) The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) co-chair Senator Deborah O’Neill (Labour) continues to highlight the international concern over human right violations in Tibet and the protection of Tibetan cultural and religious identity. The Senator recently introduced a cross-party motion on Tibet in the Australian Senate. Marking the 67th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, an identical motion was also passed in Australia’s House of Representatives. The init…
Dhaka, Feb 26 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Thursday ordered the authorities to seek an Interpol ‘Red Notice’ for the arrest of British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, niece of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, over corruption allegations, local media reported. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order on Thursday following an appeal by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), according to the court’s bench assistant, Riaz Hossain.The appeal filed by ACC Assistant Direct…