Keir Starmer is the Prime Minister. He leads the Labour Party. Trade unions stand up for workers. They have backed Labour for a long time. But now things have changed. Many unions are angry with Starmer. They say he is not helping working people. What just happened? In May 2026, Labour did badly in local elections. They lost over 1,000 councillors. This upset the unions a lot. They call the results “catastrophic”. Big unions joined together. They sent a strong message to Star

Several crews have been tackling a significant building fire at a former school in Suffolk. The county's fire service said it was called to the former Parkway Middle School, on Park Road in Haverhill, at about 20:20 BST. It advised residents to keep their windows and doors closed, to avoid the area and not to travel towards the incident unless essential. At least five crews and nine fire engines were at the scene, a spokesperson said, along with police officers and ambulance

Jess Phillips is a Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley. She used to be the government’s Safeguarding Minister. This job means she worked to keep people safe – especially women, girls, and children from abuse and violence. On 12 May 2026 she resigned from her job in the government. She sent a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Why did she resign? In her letter Jess said: • She likes Keir Starmer as a person and knows he cares about the right things. • But she feels the gove

In July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street as Britain’s new Prime Minister, fresh from a historic landslide victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule and delivered Labour its largest majority in a generation. Less than two years later, on 11 May 2026, the same man delivered what many called a “make-or-break” speech in a nondescript London community centre—shirt-sleeved, brow furrowed, voice strained—while more than 60 of his own Labour MPs p