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British Health Secretary Wes Streeting walks through the House of Commons to attend the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster, London, May 13, 2026. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)
May 14, 2026, 9:56 pm
UK health secretary resigns, setting up potential leadership challenge to Starmer
Wes Streeting says he’s lost confidence in premier, who should not serve out rest of his term; another possible challenger, ex-deputy PM Rayner, says she’s ready for contest
By DANICA KIRKA, brian melley and Pan Pylas
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (C) celebrates with the party's newly elected Mayor of Lewisham, Liam Shrivastava (centre R), and supporters, outside the count center in Lewisham, south London, on May 8, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
May 9, 2026, 12:23 pm
Anti-Israel Greens win 2 mayoralties, 5 councils in UK local elections; hard-right Reform is big winner
Farage’s Reform would be largest party in Parliament if general elections were held today; Polanski’s Green Party, engulfed in antisemitism scandals, wins mayoralty and council control in London’s Hackney, home to large ultra-Orthodox community
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shows his socks as he arrives at a polling station in Walton on the Naze, England, May 7, 2026 to cast his vote in the local elections.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)
May 8, 2026, 4:41 pm
In UK local elections, anti-immigrant Reform soars; anti-Israel Greens rise, win 2 mayoralties
Starmer says he won’t quit; new mayor of Hackney reportedly blocked letter praising London police for response to antisemitic attack; Farage says results show ‘truly historic shift’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Britain's then-Foreign Secretary David Lammy meets with US Vice President JD Vance (not in picture) at Chevening House, in Chevening, southeast England, on August 8, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett / POOL / AFP)
September 5, 2025, 9:08 pm
UK foreign secretary Lammy to be replaced as Starmer reshuffles cabinet
In apparent demotion, top UK diplomat slated for justice ministry after deputy PM resigns for underpaying taxes; will be replaced by Cooper, who proscribed Palestine Action
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner watches as the leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer makes his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, September 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
April 25, 2022, 1:14 pm
UK MPs slam ‘Basic Instinct’ slur against deputy Labour leader
After anonymous Conservatives claim Angela Rayner crosses and uncrosses her legs to distract PM, she pans ‘perverted smears’; Labour leader says sexism at ‘disgraceful new low’
By Agencies
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, walking along the promenade, arrives for the Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, September 21, 2019. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)
December 13, 2019, 11:05 am
Who might replace Labour’s Corbyn and how have they responded to anti-Semitism?
After failure of UK opposition party under hard-left leader, MPs vie to succeed him; they include anti-Israel Emily Thornberry and Labour Friends of Israel member Jess Phillips
By Agencies and ToI Staff
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his house in north London, on June 12, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/AFP)
June 30, 2019, 9:36 am
Senior UK Labour party lawmakers ‘exasperated’ at handling of anti-Semitism
Corbyn ally says independent review system should be set up if necessary; leading MP says party must ‘get a grip and quick’ if it doesn’t want to lose next election
By ToI Staff
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