The King delivered the speech in Parliament this morning. It outlines over 35 bills (new laws) for the next year. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is using it as a "reset" after Labour's poor local election results. Main things announced: Public services & people NHS reforms: Bill to abolish NHS England + changes to cut waiting lists and bureaucracy. Special Educational Needs (SEND): Big overhaul so schools give better support and fewer expensive individual plans. End the leasehol

In a dramatic escalation of the ongoing crisis engulfing the Labour government, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced he will resign from his position, citing irreconcilable differences with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and deep concerns over the direction of the party. Speaking briefly outside his department this morning following a short meeting at Downing Street, Streeting confirmed longstanding rumours of his departure. "After careful reflection, I have decided

Three bodies that are women have been found on Brighton Beach. UPDATE: The Bodies ‘believed’ to be Three young girls have been found on Brighton Beach in Sussex; there are currently no further details at this time ————————- What We Know Right Now Police found three women’s bodies this morning. They were on a bench in Brighton. This news is very sad. It is a big shock for the city. No one has said their names yet. We do not know how they died. Police are working hard to find o

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

A 25-year-old Italian man is in hospital. He shows signs of Hantavirus. What Happened? He was on a KLM flight from Johannesburg, South Africa. A sick woman was briefly on the same plane. She later died from Hantavirus. news.klm.com The virus came from a cruise ship outbreak (MV Hondius). Several people got sick there. A few died. Risk Level Health experts say the risk to the public is low. Hantavirus does not spread easily between people. A KLM flight attendant who had contac

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

Reform UK has admitted there is “no viable route” for the party to take control of Birmingham City Council despite emerging as the largest group following last week’s local elections. The party made major gains across the city on Thursday, with Jex Parkin elected in Kingstanding alongside around 22 other Reform UK councillors. The results left Reform as the biggest single party on the authority, but still well short of the 51 seats needed for an outright majority. In a statem

Labour suffered heavy defeats in local elections (England), plus elections in Scotland and Wales on/around May 7, 2026. The party lost around 1,500 council seats in one of its worst performances in decades. Reform UK made massive gains (over 1,450 seats) and took control of multiple councils, including places like Sunderland, Barnsley, and others. This result is widely seen as a damning verdict on Starmer’s government roughly two years after Labour’s 2024 landslide victory. P

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