Robert Peston

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Starmer has consistently said that the road to UK recognition of a Palestinian state would come after a ceasefire. The US and Israel have tonight broken off ceasefire talks, only hours after Macron preempted the breakdown by committing to recognise Palestine statehood. So…

By contrast, Macron has announced tonight that France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September: “Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de…

Starmer says that he and the French President and German Chancellor “all agree on the pressing need for Israel to change course and allow the aid that is desperately needed to enter Gaza without delay” because “the suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and…

Will Trump’s tariffs settle at 15% for the world on average and what would that mean for us? New Rest is Money podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0iJLZC… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Centrist Dad do Dr Feelgood. Tautology or oxymoron?

Ed Balls continued: "They have a guest act at the end. Me, and Robert Peston, John Wilson and Chris Taylor, all coming on at the end to play two songs. They are called She Does It Right and All Through The City." mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/gmb…

Football fans restore grave of British goalkeeper who defied the Nazis - Jewish News jewishnews.co.uk/football-fans-…

The British Business Bank was set up by the Cameron government in 2014 and expanded by Reeves and Starmer, to close the funding gap for small growing businesses. Is it ambitious enough? Steph and I talk with its chair Stephen Welton in new Rest is Money pod…

I said on News at Ten it was extraordinary that after the government learned of the egregious Afghan data leak no official or minister resigned. I have now learned that on 23 August 2023, at the first meeting of the government’s emergency COBR meeting to discuss the security…

Minister called for MoD resignations over Afghan data leak itv.com/news/2025-07-2…

NEW: Government accept changes to the planning bill put forward by MP Chris Hinchliff, after they suspended him on Wednesday Hinchliff had spearheaded a rebellion against the planning bill - with his amendment also supported by the three other suspended MPs 1/3

The leaked Afghan file not only contained the names of thousands of Afghans who claimed to have helped British forces and therefore wanted resettlement in the UK under the ARAP scheme but also the names of British officials who the asylum seekers said would support their cases…

How on earth could the personal details of 100 spies and special forces operatives have been included in an unprotected file that was capable of being emailed? I’ve spoken to defence and security officials and no one can explain how the security protocols could have been so lax.…

'It's really important that 16 and 17 year olds have the vote' @Keir_Starmer tells ITV News Westminster Reporter @DennyTheJourno that he will lower the voting age to 16 by the next general election itv.com/news/2025-07-1…

Has the UK lost its appetite for risk? How do we restore it? New Rest is Money podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4M2pEM… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Labour veteran on Starmer’s latest wave of removing whip from rebel MPs: “expelling Rachael Maskell is like expelling Mother Theresa. They are crackers”

As I said on News at Ten last night, among the disturbing issues and questions raised by the life-endangering data leak are: First, how a special forces reservist would have had access to such a huge file of sensitive data and the ability to email it - albeit unintentionally…