Prime Minister Keir Starmer woke up this Friday morning with a new headacheAnother factor will put more pressure on an already weakened leadership. Overtaken by the Green Party, Labour suffered a catastrophic result in the by-election held this Thursday in the Gorton and Denton district, a traditional Labour stronghold in south Manchester. Two years ago, in the July 2024 elections, he Labour She achieved 50.8% of the vote. Yesterday, she plummeted to exactly half that: 25.4%, relegating her to third place, even behind Nigel Farage's Reform Party.

The Epstein bomb has erupted with full force in the face of Keir Starmer's Labour government. The publication, last Friday, of more than three million documents from the pedophile A US Department of Justice investigation has revealed that Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords and until last September the British ambassador to Washington, shared confidential government information with the confessed pedophile in 2009. This occurred during his time as Gordon Brown's Minister of Business, and de facto, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The political scandal in the United Kingdom is enormous and the damage to the premier It comes at a time of great political weakness.

Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan (Cardiff, 1967) speaks to ARA during her visit to Catalonia this week to finalize a cooperation agreement. A member of the Labour Party, she is the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of this historic nation and faces elections in May.

On September 7, returning from a flying visit to Edinburgh, this correspondent stopped for refreshments at Darlington, a market town –historical category that designates populations with the right to hold a weekly market, but which cannot be called city, Despite its current population of 110,000, it is located in County Durham, in the north of England, 56 km south of Newcastle. London is a long way off, but the impact of the resignation of the deputy prime minister for failing to pay the taxes she should have paid is still noticeable.

Unmitigated humiliation for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The week that was supposed to mark the first anniversary of Labour's return to Downing Street –It is fulfilled this Friday–, has been the week in which the power of the premier was practically reduced to ashes and in which he was accused of making "Dickensian cuts" to social benefits for the most vulnerable. In a severe blow to his moral authority and to the legitimacy of the party leadership, Starmer saw this Tuesday night the passage of the bill reforming the Individual Contributions for the Disabled (known as welfare bill) has been practically decapitated at its core by an internal revolt of unprecedented proportions, which has forced the government to bow to the rebels' force with last-minute concessions minutes before the vote. who have spoken out against.

On June 16, during the G-7 summit in Canada, Donald Trump and Keir Starmer appeared before the media to let the world know they had signed a trade agreement, albeit a small one. And while they were doing so, the US president got caught short. Quickly, the premier British bent down to pick them up.

Almost a year after the victory Labour in the UK general election, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's popularity is plummeting. And that of the populist and xenophobic Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party –the same politician who did not rest until to provoke a divorce with the European Union nine years ago, it's been through the roof. So much so that, in recent days, various polls have given it a good chance of becoming one. premier. Or at least win the elections if they were held tomorrow and not in the summer of 2029, when they are scheduled to be called.