The Prime Minister's head of communications is to quit his Number 10 job after just nine months. Matthew Doyle is standing down as Keir Starmer ’s director of communications. He is a Labour veteran who worked closely with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Prime Minister spoke with the US President about the agreement on Sunday night amid media reports a tax on tech giants could be cut.

The Prime Minister has praised the commitment of local media to "shining the torch" on issues in a Downing Street reception attended by Nottinghamshire Live. The reception was held on Monday (March 31) and attended by around 100 leaders, editors and journalists from a broad spectrum of local media outlets.

The UK is expecting to be hit by new US tariffs on Wednesday, with Downing Street indicating a deal to exempt British goods will not be reached in time. US President Donald Trump has said he plans to unveil a raft of new tariffs - or import taxes - on 2 April, on top of a 25% levy on car and car parts which has already been announced.

The UK and Finland are “tied hip-to-hip” on Nato, Finnish president Alexander Stubb has said after meeting Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street. Finland, which joined Nato in April 2023, has a border of more than 800 miles with Russia and applied to join the military alliance shortly after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the islands for £3m, but Mauritius has argued that it was illegally forced to give away the Chagos Islands as part of a deal to get independence from Britain.

Keir Starmer has issued his most stern warning to date to President Trump as threats of damaging tariffs grow larger. The Prime Minister has said a ‘retaliation’ (meaning counter tariffs) is on the table if he thinks it is ‘in the national interest’ to do so,

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that a “trade war is in nobody’s interests” as he vowed to take a “cool-headed” approach to President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Wednesday evening.