The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer is facing the toughest week of his premiership after finally sacking Peter Mandelson, a move that has thrown Labour into chaos.

After disastrous week, some MPs predict challenge against PM likely if local and Welsh elections go badly next May

Nigel Farage’s party picked up four new councillors in six local by-elections counted overnight

Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South, said there was a ‘very dangerous atmosphere’ in the parliamentary Labour party.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Morgan McSweeney is so closely intertwined with the prime minister that sacking him would raise further, deeply uncomfortable questions about Keir Starmer’s judgement, writes Millie Cooke

Hope Not Hate writes letter to PM as senior Labour MPs call for party to take firmer stand against far right

Group opposing the proscription announces ‘major escalation’ that will culminate in London on 4 October

Downing Street rowed in behind the under-fire chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, on Friday morning amid questions over his involvement in the appointment of Peter Mandelson

The line between pulling off a diplomatic masterstroke and setting up an accident waiting to happen can be a fine one. In the seven-month fable of Peter Mandelson’s UK ambassadorship to the US, the crossing of that line has created a political polycrisis for which it is hard to think…