Pressure continued to build on Keir Starmer to remove his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

Hello and welcome to Friday’s edition of our UK politics blog.

To start, I want to take you back to what feels like another era… July 2024.

Keir Starmer’s message to the British people during the last election cycle was pretty simple: Labour were the grown-ups in Parliament and were the only party who could be trusted to govern the country.

The campaign could be summed up in one persistently repeated sentence: “Only a Labour government can break this cycle and stop the chaos.”