The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir

Nin Pandit, Sir Keir’s principal private secretary, is set to leave the role.

Hefin Wyn David, 47, was found dead at his home in Caerphilly.

The brutal polling comes despite Sir Keir’s attempts to drag his party to the right to see off the threat from Nigel Farage

The prime minister is expected to use Tuesday’s meeting to present his plan for a ‘lasting peace’ in the Middle East

The Prime Minister calls senior ministers in during the summer recess for the meeting on Gaza

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The last government to experience a double-digit fall in the 12 months after an election was John Major’s Conservatives.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Labour prime minister’s chief of staff under fire over crisis around plans to limit disability and sickness-related benefits, writes Kate Devlin

The prime minister admitted that MPs want to see welfare reform ‘implemented with Labour values of fairness’

Kemi Badenoch says the Prime Minister had to be ‘led by the nose to make the correct decision’

The Israeli leader’s comments come after two Israeli embassy staff were killed in Washington DC.