カテゴリー: Keir Starmer
Prime minister hopes to learn from success of scheme rolled out to most of country’s 1.4bn citizensKeir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”.S…
Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Eg…
US president ‘very disappointed’ in Russian ruler; Trump had promised to get Putin to negotiating table with Volodymr Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,288Donald Trump took no apparent action at the passing of his latest deadline for Vladimir Putin to c…
Britain’s car and whisky industries set for boost while India gets visa concessions, but some sensitive issues unresolvedIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is visiting London to sign a landmark free trade agreement between his country and the UK, a…
French president addresses MPs on topical issues, from commitment to Ukraine, to European connection and US tariffsUK politics live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron, making the state visit by a European head of state to the UK since Brexit, has addresse…
Call for UK PM to act urgently over pro-democracy campaigner who has spent 1,602 days in solitary confinementFormer prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad have urged the UK prime minister to urgently secure the release of the pro-democracy campaign…
Row over exemption of national insurance contributions for Indian short-term workers overshadows deal A multibillion-pound free trade agreement with India has long been touted as a big Brexit boon.Cheaper clothes and shoes for British shoppers, a huge …
Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040. The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has l…
PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional disputeKeir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands, including the str…
Keir Starmer has raised concerns with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, about sanctions on British MPs and the deterioration of the British citizen and Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai, in a meeting at the G20 summit in Rio. The UK prime ministe…
UK government stresses it does not pay reparations and said before Chogm summit that issue was not on agendaCommonwealth leaders have resolved that “the time has come” for a conversation on reparatory justice despite the UK’s insistence that the issue …
Rachel Reeves to encourage import of raw materials from Commonwealth countries to counter China’s grip on market Businesses that import critical minerals to the UK will be given access to state-backed loans in a move to counter China’s dominance in the…
Starmer under pressure from Caribbean countries at Commonwealth talks but is refusing payments or apologyKeir Starmer has opened the door to non-financial reparations for the UK’s role in the transatlantic enslavement, as he came under pressure from Co…
Growing diplomatic row as police say they have evidence of Delhi’s links to murder of Sikh leader in CanadaBritain joined its Five Eyes intelligence partners on Wednesday in saying India’s cooperation with Canada’s legal process was “the right next ste…
Party leader seeks to win back British Indian voters after anger over party’s perceived support for Pakistan in Kashmir disputeKeir Starmer has promised to reset relations between the Labour party and India after years of tension between the two.The La…