Keir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefitting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity causing suffering and death.
[Daily Record] EXCLUSIVE: SNP MP Kirsty Blackman said getting rid of the hated Tory welfare policy should be the “bare minimum – not the height of ambitions”.
The UK Labour Government has been challenged to go “much further” than scrapping the two-child cap on benefits if it wants to reduce number of kids living in poverty.
SNP MP Kirsty Blackman has today written to Keir Starmer to insist getting rid of the hated Tory welfare policy should be the “bare minimum – not the height of ambitions”.
It comes amid rising speculation the Prime Minister may use next week’s UK Labour conference in Liverpool to confirm the two-child cap will finally be ended.
Anti-poverty campaigners and charities have long warned the policy punishes larger families and pushes more youngsters into a life of poverty as a result.
The SNP Government has already commited to mitigating the impact of the welfare cap in Scotland from next March.
In her letter, Blackman said: “Independent analysis shows that if the UK government matched SNP action across the UK, it could lift 2.3million families out of poverty overnight, including a further 96,000 in Scotland.
Keir Starmer confirms that he’s proud to be a red Tory continuing austerity and targeting poor and disabled scum.Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.Keir Starmer commits to play the caretaker role for Capitalism through the “hard times”.
Over 100 people are expected to challenge the ban on Palestine Action and the party’s complicity in genocide outside Labour’s conference
Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing for the government on first day of conference
Labour officials rejected all 30 motions on Palestine
70% of Labour members oppose the ban and TUC has voted to reverse it
Over 100 ordinary citizens are expected to risk arrest under terrorism laws outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool at 2:30pm this Sunday by peacefully holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’.
The ban on Palestine Action is hugely unpopular with Labour members with 71% saying they oppose the ban. Trades Unions also oppose the ban. At their annual conference earlier this month the Trades Union Congress voted unanimously to reverse the ban.
When Jack Straw brought in the Terrorism Act 2000 he assured the House of Commons that it would never be used against a protest group.
Many Labour Lords and MPs feel they have been misled and have called on ministers to rethink the “unsustainable and unworkable” “authoritarian attack of the right to protest”. The New York Times has published the intelligence services assessment on Palestine Action which undermines the government’s claims that the group poses a danger to the public. Lawyers have accused former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper of conducting “a cynical media campaign.”
Despite the evident hunger to discuss the genocide in Gaza, the Labour government’s complicity and their ban on a domestic nonviolent protest group, party officials have ruled out all 30 motions on Palestine submitted by local branches.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:
“Labour members and trades unions are against their party’s complicity in genocide and the ban on Palestine Action. Yet party officials have shut down all the debates that members wanted to have on these issues during their conference.
“Defend Our Juries will bring the “Lift The Ban” campaign to the door of the party that continues to deny genocide and has banned the direct action group that was trying to prevent it.
“The action will pose a dilemma for the Merseyside Police: prioritise human rights and community relations like Police Scotland and other forces around the UK, or trample over fundamental rights to protest and free expression like the Met Police by arresting over 100 peaceful sign-holders under this ridiculous ban.
Labour has reneged on Jack Straw’s promise that the Terrorism Act he introduced would never be used against a domestic protest group. Unless the law is redrawn and the ban overturned, any group that this government or a future government does not like could be treated as terrorists. This ban cannot and will not stand.
“The government has misled the public and MPs about why Palestine Action was proscribed. Instead of shutting down protest, it’s time the Labour Party took the responsibility to prevent genocide seriously and impose blanket sanctions on Israel including stopping the flow of arms from factories in this country.”
Labour government’s genocide denial
Last week the UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Yet the Labour government continues to say that “any formal determination as to whether genocide has occurred should be made following a judgment by a competent national or international court.”
The UN report rejects this position noting that “Since at least January 2024, when the International Court of Justice ordered its first provisional measures, all states… have been on notice of a serious risk that genocide was being or would be committed.”
The UK government has therefore been negligent of its obligations under the Geneva Convention to prevent and punish genocide.
Keir Starmer says he will “jealously and fiercely” protect free speech
Despite recent mass arrests of over 1,600 people for peacefully holding cardboard signs, and scenes of an 83 year old Anglican priest being led into a police van, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in his recent press conference with US president Donald Trump, said: “free speech, it’s one of the founding values of the United Kingdom and we protect it jealously and fiercely and always will.”
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obst ructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAVote Labour for Genocide.
Andy Burnham leads the pack of potential future replacements for Prime Minister Keir Starmer in new Savanta polling of British voters about leadership qualities, The House can exclusively reveal.
While there is currently no vacancy either in the Labour leadership or 10 Downing Street, Labour insiders have speculated that a battle for the top job could come sooner rather than later, given the challenges faced by Starmer and his government.
Leadership candidates must be sitting MPs, which Greater Manchester mayor Burnham is not. But his return to the parliamentary party via a by-election has been floated as a possibility by allies, and he has not denied that he could seek a Westminster seat.
Angela Rayner was tipped to be Starmer’s most likely successor before she resigned as deputy leader and deputy prime minister. She now sits on the backbenches.
Discussing a forthcoming book by investigative journalist Paul Holden titled The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy.
Downing Street’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who was the director of the Labour Together think tank, undated image (PA)
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Holden’s book will contain allegations of irregularities concerning what he calls “a secret unlawful fund” and more than £700,000 of hidden donations to a think tank run by McSweeney.
These revelations are potentially dangerous for McSweeney. Far more importantly, they may impact viscerally on Starmer himself.
This is because, according to Holden, the purpose of McSweeney’s think tank, misleadingly called Labour Together, was to supercharge Starmer’s path to Downing Street.
Once Starmer was installed in No 10 he rewarded McSweeney by making him Downing Street chief of staff.
The Tory Party is now claiming that new evidence has come to light that “raises the question of whether a criminal offence has been committed”.
In a letter to the Electoral Commission, Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake makes the devastating allegation that the “funds were used by Labour Together in a sustained political campaign to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and secure the election of Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party”.
This is especially significant because official records show Starmer did not declare any support from the group in the official Commons register.
Under the Commons code of conduct, MPs are required to declare support worth more than £1,500 designed to help their “candidacy at an election for parliamentary or non-parliamentary office”.
To put the charges made into plain English, the Tories are in effect accusing McSweeney of arranging a secret slush fund to launch Starmer into Downing Street.
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Hundreds of demonstrators carrying flags, banners gathered at Placa de Sant Jaume to protest the recent killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during Israeli attacks in Barcelona, Spain on August 27, 2025. [Lorena Sopena – Anadolu Agency]
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni and AP Executive Editor Julie Pace on Thursday renewed calls for accountability on the one-month anniversary of Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza that killed five journalists, Anadolu reports.
“On the one-month anniversary of the Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza, we renew our demand for a clear account from the Israeli authorities and urge the government to uphold its obligations to ensure press freedom and protection,” the editors said in a joint statement.
The strikes killed Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, visual journalist Mariam Dagga, who worked for AP and other outlets, and freelance journalist Moaz Abu Taha, whose work appeared in Reuters.
“We remain devastated and outraged by their deaths,” Galloni and Pace said.
They stressed that “the strikes that killed them occurred at a hospital, a location protected under international law and one that was widely known to be crucial for news coverage out of Gaza.
“These journalists were acting in their professional capacity, doing eyewitness reporting,” the statement said. “An incident of this gravity requires a prompt and clear explanation, followed by accountability and concrete actions to ensure such attacks are never repeated.”
More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in the region since Oct. 7, 2023, according to different media watchdogs, which the editors described as “an alarming toll that underscores the escalating risks for those reporting on the ground.”
“We again call on the government of Israel to explain the deaths of these journalists and to take every step to protect those who continue to cover this conflict,” the statement said.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAVote Labour for Genocide.
