The Latest Breaking News from Downing Street

From spending review to China audit to assisted dying vote, June’s events have potential to lift or darken Labour mood

The Government ‘won’t take concrete action to fix’ military families’ homes, Lib Dem defence spokeswoman Helen Maguire claimed.

The Metropolitan Police said they believed around 20,000 protesters attended the march through London

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Earlier in the day, Mr Kristersson had met with British and Swedish defence companies.

The Prime Minister used a Downing Street speech on Monday to lay out plans to ‘significantly’ reduce net migration.

Keir Starmer said the UK risked becoming an “island of strangers” as he unveiled an immigration crackdown including plans to cut overseas care…

The Prime Minister, joined by his wife Lady Starmer, invited around 130 people including two Second World War veterans to the event.

With a thumping success in local elections this week, the hard-right Reform UK party has loosened Britain's two-party stranglehold and is already eyeing Downing Street.

One Labour MP said the response from Downing Street was ‘nonsense’ while another said the party needs a ‘change of plan’.

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