Keir Starmer controversies

A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Gorton and Denton was held on 26 February 2026, following the resignation of Andrew Gwynne on health grounds. Gwynne was sitting as an independent following suspension from the Labour Party for sending offensive WhatsApp messages.

Morgan James McSweeney is an Irish political strategist for the British Labour Party. He served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Keir Starmer from October 2024 until his resignation in February 2026. A close colleague and adviser to Starmer for multiple years, he was ranked first in a 2024 New Statesman poll on influential people in UK left-wing politics, and has been compared to Dominic Cummings and Peter Mandelson.

6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. He served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's cabinets as Minister without portfolio, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Business Secretary and First Secretary of State. He was the British Ambassador to the United States in 2025 under Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

series of riots in the United Kingdom in July–August 2024 organized by Tommy Robinson

Egyptian human rights activist

British politician (born 1982)

British politician

British politician (born 1975)

British media entrepreneur and politician (born 1964)

racially-motivated murder in London, UK

British civil servant and political advisor

UK internet safety legislation

ongoing cost-of-living crisis in the United Kingdom

allegations of antisemitism