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Starmer Preaches Resilience. His NHS Is On Strike.

Editorial digest April 10, 2026 Last updated : 09:19 The prime minister is in the Gulf warning that Britain must stop being "at the mercy of events abroad." Fine words. Back home, the NHS is on strike, the military's transformation programme is being called a "

Deaths in the Channel, Terror at Home — Britain's Unfinished Business

Deaths in the Channel, Terror at Home — Britain's Unfinished Business

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 13:03 Four people drowned off the French coast on Wednesday trying to reach Britain in a small boat. Two men, two women — names we may never learn, lives reduced to a line in a news bulletin. The same week, a British citizen

Labour's Support Is Fraying — And No One Knows Where It Goes

Labour's Support Is Fraying — And No One Knows Where It Goes

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 11:04 Eight people sat in a room in Birmingham Yardley last week. All of them voted Labour in 2024. Almost none of them plan to do it again. That finding, from a More in Common focus group published today, is more dangerous

Cooper's Mansion House Gambit and the Battles Britain Can't Avoid

Cooper's Mansion House Gambit and the Battles Britain Can't Avoid

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 09:17 Yvette Cooper stands at Mansion House today with a message aimed well beyond the City audience in front of her. The Foreign Secretary will demand that Lebanon be folded into the US-Iran ceasefire and that the Strait of Hormuz reopen fully

From the Gulf to the Campaign Trail, Britain's Search for Leverage

From the Gulf to the Campaign Trail, Britain's Search for Leverage

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 00:42 Keir Starmer landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday with a message calibrated for two audiences at once. To Gulf allies nervous about Washington's unpredictability, the prime minister offered Britain as a steady hand — a country ready to help reopen