Chris Smyth

Britain, France and Germany say they are ready to take "further action" to support a ceasefire and lasting peace in Gaza Strong hint of recognition of Palestinian statehood from Starmer - but without saying anything that would antagonise Trump

Wes Streeting not pulling his punches in response to BMA "recklessly" saying strikes will go ahead He says it shows "a complete disdain for patients" is "completely unjustified" and "completely unprecedented in the history of British trade unionism"

Rayner v Reeves from last Wednesday’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ As first revealed by me and ⁦@MaxKendix⁩

Keir Starmer finally acknowledges a regret - "We could have involved parliament more, I don't doubt that"

Starmer says that the people of Holborn and St Pancras need to "up our game" on charitable giving after being told his was one of the least generous constituencies

Starmer suggests its a good sign that unemployment is rising as it suggests more of the previous inactive are now looking for a job

Starmer says "we have to deal with people who repeatedly break the whip" Pretty uncompromising message to unhappy backbench MPs

Rayner says votes at 16 will "get democracy back on track" With analysis - most voters see this as a cynical ploy: But with young voters divided and angry, this is a high risk move when Labour is already struggling with the messy compromises of power thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Starmer won the last election by promising to bring back grown-up government after years of chaos. The risk now is he ends up fighting the next one like a frustrated parent trying in vain to make angry teenagers listen

Top use of the phrase "persistent knobheadery" as rationale for suspending 3 Labour MPs I'm sure we could all think of others in Westminster who'd in danger if that's the bar

Excl: Sir Keir Starmer is having a clear out of MPs he believes to have committed "persistent breaches of party discipline". Multiple sources tell me at least three MPs have so far lost the whip - with more to come this afternoon.

BREAKING: The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and successive governments have spent years fighting to keep it secret using an unprecedented superinjunction

New figures show 300,000 more children affected by two-child benefit cap than when Labour took power 1.67m kids in households hit by the cap - double what it was two years ago

I asked Keir Starmer why his NHS 10 year plan would succeed when a string of others with basically the same goals have failed His answer? “We’ve got the resolve to see this through. And I genuinely think it's only Labour governments that can do this” Convinced?