Sir Keir Starmer has been left facing a "real threat" following his party's campaign of attacks against Nigel Farage, his own MPs have warned.
Since the start of this year, a surge in support for Reform UK has seen Starmer and his party's most vocal MPs take pot-shots at Farage's stance on the NHS and Vladimir Putin - the former of which has been dubbed his "Achilles Heel" by insiders.
As a result, the party's left flank has been left unguarded, with Greens and pro-Gaza independents now posing a serious polling challenge.
Greens co-leader Adrian Ramsay told Politico that his party is seeking to mop up the support of Britons who have been "very let down by Labour"
While one Labour MP who battled a Green candidate at last summer's election warned: "The Greens have the potential to be a real threat."
The same MP has warned that Labour is heading for a "crash course collision" with its own voters - many of whom "didn't expect that this is what they were going to get".
Ex-Tony Blair aide and political strategist John McTernan - who has been vocal in his criticism of the far-left in the past - warned that Starmer's Labour now "sits in a very exposed position in a country that has repeatedly voted for change for the last decade".
That comes as Labour's own Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who now faces an uphill polling battle against independent Leanne Mohamad, has been forced to deny sniffing out a safe seat at the next election.
Streeting, asked by The Spectator whether he would switch to a safer seat, vowed: "Definitely not. Ilford North is my home. And I don't believe in cutting and running, I'm in it to win it."
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Labour has been urged to ban controversial "non-crime hate incidents" following a series of high-profile "Orwellian" encounters with Britain's police.
Kemi Badenoch's Tories are set to table an amendment to the Government's Crime and Policing Bill to bar officers from recording NCHIs in all but a few cases.
And the party leader herself has warned that police are "trawling social media for things someone might find offensive" rather than "fighting crime and protecting families".
"Keir Starmer needs to stop hiding behind weasel words. Stand up, show some courage, and back real policing over political correctness," she blasted.
"If Labour were serious about the violence in our towns and cities, they'd back our amendment and fix this."
NCHIs were first brought into force in 2014 having been recommended by the 1999 inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's death in 1993.
Today is the anniversary of his death - and one Tory official told Politico that the timing was not intentional.
And Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, who was Policing Minister when the new guidelines were introduced, said: "Our amendment will stop police forces from wasting time on this Orwellian nonsense and get them back to doing the job the public expects: fighting real crime.
"The Conservative Party will always stand up for free speech and common sense."
A row over Labour MP Tahir Ali's claim that Tory MPs are under the influence of the "Indian lobby" has taken a fresh twist following Robert Jenrick's fury this morning.
Aman Bhogal, founder of the Global Britain Centre, has laid into Ali - and has issued a dire warning over the "failures of integration" to boot.
"Britain is seeing toxic sectarian politics, being played by Labour MPs who sound more like the MPs for Mirpur and Lahore than MPs for Bins-On-Strike-Birmingham," Bhogal told GB News.
"The caustic bigotry of Labour's identity politics has long sowed division, and this latest denial of the Pakistani rape gangs and communally charged sectarianism is a glaring warning of failures of integration and failed multiculturalism more interested in foreign conflicts than Britain’s national interest.
"Labour MPs trotting out poisonous anti-Indian tropes against Conservative MPs challenging the ugly rise of Islamist sectarianism shows the gutter politics being imported from Pakistan into our Parliament."
Badenoch also swiped at Reform UK as she braced for a local elections pasting
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Kemi Badenoch has warned that the Tories are facing down a "very difficult" set of local elections results just nine days before voters head to the polls.
She told the BBC: "We lost last year in a historic defeat - these elections are going to be very difficult for Conservatives.
"Two-thirds of the seats four years ago we won - there's no way we are going to be able to do that again."
And in a veiled dig at Reform UK, she added: "Protest is in the air... protest parties are doing well at the moment.
"It's really important that we take time to get things right, rebuild trust with the public and have a credible offer."
Sir Keir Starmer has revealed what his definition of a woman is following last week's landmark Supreme Court judgment.
Starmer told ITV: "A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.
"I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity. It allows those that have got to draw up guidance to be really clear about what that guidance should say.
"So I think it's important that we see the judgment for what it is. It's a welcome step forward. It's real clarity in an area where we did need clarity, I'm pleased it's come about.
"We need to move and make sure that we now ensure that all guidance is in the right place according to that judgment."
Ali (seated) told attendees at the Mirpur Airport Demand Grand Conference Birmingham that Tory MPs were 'controlled by the Indian lobby'
FACEBOOKA British-Pakistani conference in Birmingham which saw an MP label grooming gangs a "false right-wing narrative" has taken a fresh twist after a Labour MP has been accused of pushing "sectarian tribalism".
Tahir Ali, who watched on as Independent MP Ayoub Khan embarked on a rape gangs tirade, also spoke at the event - and now, following a translation of his Urdu-language speech, Robert Jenrick has reacted with fury.
Ali had accused Tory MPs of being "controlled by the Indian lobby" - prompting Jenrick to blast: "This Labour MP accuses Conservative MPs of being controlled by the 'Indian lobby' for telling him to focus on Birmingham, not Pakistan.
"He cannot fathom a politician putting Britain's interests first. So he projects his sectarian tribalism onto us. Does Starmer condone this?"
GB News has approached the Labour Party for comment.
Tory MP Nick Timothy has issued a dire warning over transparency in the Home Office after the department failed to reveal crucial data on how many illegal migrants are working in Britain.
Timothy had probed the Home Office on "how many illegal migrants have been granted permission to work in full-time and part-time employment in each year since 2020".
But the department refused to give him the data - and changed his wording of "illegal migrants" to "irregular migrants".
Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said in response that finding such data would "involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams" in the department.
As a result, the figures can allegedly only be obtained "at disproportionate cost".
After his request was denied, Timothy blasted on social media: "They don't want you to know. But worse, they don't want to know themselves. Because they don't care."
Bridget Phillipson has doubled down on her trans U-turn
PABridget Phillipson has doubled down on her trans U-turn after vowing that transgender women should use male toilets.
Last week, she welcomed the landmark Supreme Court ruling - but the Education Secretary had just last year said that trans women - with penises - would be able to use women-only bathrooms under Labour's plan to make gender changing easier.
And this morning, she told the BBC that the ruling was clear that "services should be accessed on the basis of biological sex".
"There are important questions around, for example, the use of toilets, around the use of changing facilities, but there are also profound questions that I think are even more important about, for example, hospital provision, rape crisis centres, women's refuges, where you are talking about people often being in that provision on an accommodation basis for an extended period of time," she said.
Phillipson added: "I know that many businesses, large and small, will ensure that they have appropriate provision in place... For example, many businesses have moved towards unisex provision or separate cubicles that can be used by anyone."
Starmer met Luxon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa last year
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Sir Keir Starmer is set to inspect a military base alongside New Zealander counterpart Christopher Luxon later today.
The pair will meet Ukrainian soldiers being trained on British soil by the UK and New Zealand military - and are also expected to unveil a new arms deal which will see the Ministry of Defence buy £30million worth of drones made by a Kiwi firm, alongside a new agreement to strengthen defence cooperation.
It comes just days after the UK was urged to pursue "Canzuk" - a Canada-Australia-UK-New Zealand alliance which proponents say could redefine Britain's place in the world.
Labour's Education Minister Stephen Morgan has called for "police action" the "unacceptable” language on placards and daubed on statues at the weekend's mass trans protests in London.
One placard at an "emergency demonstration" in Parliament Square over the weekend showed an illustration of gallows alongside a slogan suggesting "the only good Terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist]" is a hanged one.
Morgan told Sky News: "It's completely unacceptable language to be used, and obviously any matters that break the law should be reported to the police, and hopefully police action is taken."
The protests had erupted in response to the landmark Supreme Court judgment that the terms "woman" and "sex" are biologically defined - and he indicated that Equalities Minister and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson would make a statement in the Commons in response to the judgment soon.
MPs and peers are plotting to block US President Donald Trump from addressing Parliament during his upcoming state visit to the UK.
Trump recently told reporters in the Oval Office that "the King and the great country" had invited him for a "second fest" which will be "beautiful".
But one Labour MP spat: "Parliament has nothing to learn from a serial liar, cheat, womaniser and bankrupt. We don't need Trump to lecture and dictate his unilateral terms to our elected representatives."
Policing Minister Diana Johnson, responding to the Conservatives' NCHI proposals, said: "The Tories are all over the place. They had 14 years in charge of policing to set priorities or make policy changes in this area, and failed to do so.
"The Shadow Home Secretary was the policing minister who said just two years ago that 'if someone is targeted because of hostility or prejudice towards their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity the incident can and should be recorded as a non-crime hate incident'.
"Instead of introducing unworkable and half-baked measures which would prevent the police monitoring serious antisemitism and other racist incidents, the Tories should support the Labour Government's prioritisation of neighbourhood policing and serious violence."
