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Sunday, August 17, 2025
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Topic: Labour Party

UK’s Labour Party wins Scottish by-election after bitter campaigns, defeats SNP & Reform UK

PM Keir Starmer’s Labour secured a surprise victory as voters rallied around popular local candidate Davy Russell, winning 8,559 votes in the election for the Scottish parliament.

There’s a new ‘ism’ in town. Left, Right & Centre are losing to it

In the new world, the only idea that cuts across enough vote banks is populism. Its beauty, charm and success lies in its ease of use, in how little it demands from your head or heart.

As UK seeks FTA with India, key negotiator’s representative joins Sikh separatist event in Parliament

Preet Kaur Gill, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jonathan Reynolds who is negotiating the FTA, was present at the Gurpurab gathering hosted by a pro-Sikh separatist group.

Labour budget to ‘fix foundations’. churn ‘new path’, says UK PM

PM Starmer pledges long-term growth, investment, and more money for working people.

Trump’s campaign accuses UK’s Labour Party of interference in US elections

LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the U.S. presidential election after its volunteers

UK elects record number of 26 Indian-origin MPs & 264 women to House of Commons

Labour politician Rachel Reeves has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st female to hold the post. Of the Indian-origin MPs, 6 belong to Conservative party, including Rishi Sunak.

Keir Starmer, 400 paar — Labour storms to victory in UK, Tories break records in defeat

Political landscape in the UK has fragmented with Conservatives suffering 250-seat loss. Eleven cabinet ministers & ex-PM Liz Truss among Tories who lost their seats.

‘UK People have spoken, they’re ready for change,’ says Keir Starmer, as Labour Party poised to win

Remarks by the Labour Party chief, set to become next UK PM, came after his win from Holborn and St Pancras constituency in north London.

Will Starmer-led Labour score landslide win? Britons vote to seal fate of Sunak’s Tories

Sunak’s Tories are fighting to finish 2nd, ahead of Liberal Democrats. Both Labour & Tories have promised to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with India.

JK Rowling & the biological definition of sex: Author backs Communist Party over trans rights stance

Rowling, a former Labour donor, accused party leader Keir Starmer of ‘abandoning women’ who are concerned about trans rights & said she does not trust his judgment.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?