Sir Keir Starmer has admitted for the first time he was planning a manifesto-busting increase to income tax rates in the run-up to the Budget, as he denied misleading voters about the public finances.

Sir Keir Starmer was savaged live on Sky News as Tory frontbencher Alex Burghart ripped into Labour’s chaotic economic message, branding the party’s latest claims “pure panic” and “absolute nonsense”.

The UK will adopt a more pro-business approach to China but not trade its national security for greater trade ties, Keir Starmer said as he sought to clarify his Labour administration’s approach to the Asian nation.

NIGEL Farage says his relationship with Sir Keir Starmer collapsed after the PM snubbed a plea for Reform party peers. Despite their political differences, the pair were on good terms for a while

Labour warned larger families now have ‘substantial’ incentive to claim sickness benefits in order to gain fully from the change

The Shadow Foreign Secretary has unleashed a blistering attack, claiming the Prime Minister is "kowtowing" to the Chinese Communist Party.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned on Monday that China posed "national security threats" to Britain, but defended his government's decision to step up engagement with the country, saying closer business ties were in the national interest.

In a speech on Monday night, Starmer condemned the previous Conservative governments’ colder approach to Beijing