The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Mere weeks into the dawn of a new Labour era, Starmer’s No 10 is enmeshed in a spat more typical of a regime on its last legs, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The PM’s chief of staff’s pay rise has reportedly angered Labour Party special advisers

Conservative Party has claimed prime minister had ‘snatched away support for the vulnerable’ while handing large pensions to his senior officials

Keir Starmer’s commitment to putting an end to “the chaos of sleaze” is already on the ropes, largely because of reports surrounding his wife’s clothes. The prime minister initially failed to declare clothes gifted to Victoria Starmer by Labour party donor Waheed Alli – although he has now done so.

The detonation of hundreds of pagers, and dozens of walkie-talkies, used by Hezbollah leaders and associates across Lebanon, killing at least 20 and injuring 450, was a daring and high-risk attack by Israel. Some might call it foolhardy, because it opens the prospect of Israel now having to handle war…

Ministers have ‘no political input’ into the pay of advisers, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected in July on a promise to restore trust in politics

Business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, defends PM over gifts he has received since becoming Labour leader

PM should either ditch chief of staff or back her ‘because he can’t let this carry on’, says political biographer

PM defends decision to accept corporate hospitality but dodges question about who paid for his glasses

Don’t expect Obama 2008 levels, say sources, but ministers know Starmer’s party have much to celebrate in Liverpool