Keir Starmer
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024
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| 2025 | Listed by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people. |
| April 16 2025 | Following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, Starmer, through a spokesperson, stated that transgender women could not be considered women, aligning with the court's interpretation of the Equality Act 2010. |
| March 2025 | Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced a two-year plan to abolish NHS England, aiming to reduce bureaucracy and redirect funding to more effective service provisions. |
| February 10 2025 | Keir Starmer became the first serving British Prime Minister and G7 leader to publicly take a rapid HIV home test on camera, alongside HIV activist Beverley Knight and Terrence Higgins Trust chief executive Richard Angell, reinforcing his commitment to ending new HIV cases in the UK by 2030. |
| February 2025 | Starmer met with President Trump at the White House to discuss continued support for Ukraine, a potential peace deal, and a potential trade deal. He also presented a hand-written letter from King Charles III inviting Trump to a second state visit to the UK. |
| 2024 | Following a tense meeting between U.S. President Trump and President Zelenskyy at the White House, Starmer organized a summit of European leaders in London to discuss continued support for Ukraine, security guarantees, and potential peace efforts. |
| 2024 | Starmer revealed that he was 'certain that Labour would lose the 2019 election', distancing himself from Corbyn's leadership and previous election policies. |
| 2024 | Re-elected as MP for Holborn and St Pancras with a further reduced majority of 18,884 (48.9 per cent). |
| 2024 | At the NATO summit, Keir Starmer signalled support for Ukraine using British Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets inside Russia during the ongoing Russian invasion, and advocated for Ukraine's 'irreversible' NATO membership strategy during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
| 2024 | Labour gained the Blackpool South parliamentary seat from the Conservatives in a by-election and narrowly won the West Midlands mayoral election. |
| 2024 | Re-elected to Parliament with a further reduced majority of 18,884 votes (48.9 per cent). |
| 2024 | Starmer visited Southport and laid flowers at the scene of the Southport stabbing, where three young girls were killed, and was heckled by some members of the public. |
| 2024 | Keir Starmer launches a Child Poverty Taskforce to work on supporting over four million children living in poverty, while maintaining the existing two-child benefit cap introduced in 2013. |
| 2024 | Labour proposed 39 bills in the State Opening of Parliament, including plans to renationalise railways, bring local bus services under public control, strengthen workers' rights, tackle illegal immigration, reform the House of Lords, and accelerate infrastructure and housing delivery. |
| December 26 2024 | Starmer's brother Nick died after a cancer diagnosis, with Starmer issuing a tribute the following day. |
| November 2024 | Starmer met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, expressing his desire to establish a 'consistent, durable, respectful' relationship with China. |
| November 6 2024 | Starmer calls Donald Trump to formally congratulate him on his election victory and receives assurance that the UK-US 'special relationship' will continue to thrive. |
| October 30 2024 | Chancellor Rachel Reeves presents the Labour Party's first budget in over 14 years, marking her as the first woman to present a British government budget. The budget includes significant investments in healthcare, education, housing, and increases the National Minimum Wage to £12.21 per hour. |
| October 14 2024 | Inaugural International Investment Summit held at London's Guildhall, featuring world-renowned CEOs and investors discussing investments in AI, life sciences, and infrastructure. |
| October 10 2024 | Government implements major employment regulation enhancements, including increased minimum wages and new worker protection rights. |
| September 2024 | Starmer and his family adopted a Siberian kitten named Prince at 10 Downing Street. |
| September 2024 | Starmer visits New York City to address the UN General Assembly and meets with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Trump Tower, seeking to establish a working relationship. |
| September 2024 | Under Starmer's premiership, the UK government suspended 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel due to a 'clear risk' of breaching international law, affecting equipment like fighter jet parts, helicopters, and drones. |
| September 2024 | Sky News reported that Starmer had received £107,145 in gifts, benefits, and hospitality since December 2019, which was significantly more than any other MP. |
| September 2024 | Keir Starmer faced criticism for accepting gifts from Labour donors, including £5,000 worth of clothes for his wife bought by Lord Alli, potentially breaking parliamentary rules. |
| September 11 2024 | Starmer pledges no additional NHS funding without comprehensive reform, following a critical review by Lord Darzi. |
| September 10 2024 | Government defeats a Conservative Party motion blocking the winter fuel payment cuts, winning by a majority of 120 in Parliament. |
| August 2024 | Starmer's government agrees to increase public-sector worker pay by 5 to 7 per cent, resolving ongoing industrial disputes. |
| August 27 2024 | Keir Starmer met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to announce talks towards revising a bilateral cooperation agreement, covering key areas such as defence, energy security, science, and technology. |
| August 4 2024 | Starmer publicly stated that rioters 'will feel the full force of the law' and called the riots 'far-right thuggery'. He later called an emergency response meeting of COBRA and ordered a 'standing army' to be set up to tackle the ongoing riots using special emergency powers. |
| August 1 2024 | Following a meeting with senior police officers, Starmer announced the establishment of a National Violent Disorder Programme to facilitate greater cooperation between police forces when dealing with violent disorder. |
| July 2024 | US President Joe Biden congratulates Keir Starmer on his general election victory and discusses the Special Relationship between the US and UK, as well as mutual support for Ukraine. |
| July 2024 | Starmer declared the Rwanda asylum plan 'dead' and announced the establishment of a Border Security Command under Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to tackle migrant smuggling gangs. |
| July 2024 | Starmer assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the UK Government's continued 'vital cooperation to deter malign threats' with Israel. |
| July 2024 | Completed a tour of the four UK nations, meeting with regional leaders including John Swinney, Michelle O'Neill, and Vaughan Gething, and met with twelve regional mayors. Announced the establishment of the Council of the Nations and Regions. |
| July 2024 | Starmer made a statement to PinkNews supporting LGBT rights, including strengthening hate crime protections and proposing a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban. |
| July 29 2024 | New Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces the scrapping of certain winter fuel payments for around 10 million pensioners, creating controversy. |
| July 24 2024 | Starmer attended his first Prime Minister's Questions in parliament. |
| July 23 2024 | Labour withdraws the parliamentary whip from seven MPs who supported an SNP amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap. The suspended MPs are John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Zarah Sultana, and Rebecca Long-Bailey, who now sit as independents. The amendment was rejected by 363 votes to 103. |
| July 22 2024 | Skills England was launched, with the objective of reducing the need for overseas employees by improving skills training for people in England. |
| July 9 2024 | Parliament was recalled to meet, following Starmer's Cabinet formation. |
| July 9 2024 | Attended his first overseas meeting as prime minister at the NATO summit in Washington, flying to the event with a commitment to increase UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP after a comprehensive review of British armed forces. |
| July 7 2024 | Starmer completed his ministerial appointments, finalizing his Cabinet selections. |
| July 6 2024 | Keir Starmer's new Cabinet held its first meeting, marking the beginning of his leadership of the government. |
| July 4 2024 | Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory in the general election, winning 411 seats and achieving a 174-seat majority, ending fourteen years of Conservative government. |
| June 2024 | Starmer released the Labour Party manifesto 'Change', outlining key policies including a new publicly owned energy company, Green Prosperity Plan, NHS improvements, and railway renationalisation. |
| June 2024 | Starmer pledged to reduce legal immigration to the UK by improving training and skills for British workers. |
| May 2024 | Starmer donated the glitter-covered jacket from the October 2023 incident to a charity founded in memory of Jo Cox, raising £2,700 for the organization. |
| May 28 2024 | The Labour Party restored the whip to Diane Abbott, allowing her potential return as a candidate, after months of suspension. |
| May 22 2024 | Rishi Sunak unexpectedly announced the general election to be held on 4 July 2024. |
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