Paul Embery

Ilfracombe, Devon. Population, around 12,000. Over the past 12 months there were 364 violent and sexual offences, 287 anti-social behaviour incidents and 121 shoplifting cases.

Here's why Labour should be worried. These are the volunteers of Tredegar Museum. It's based in the home town of Aneurin Bevan - an area Labour lost last week. This video sums up Labour's problems perfectly.

Starmer's authority is now crumbling. But even those most committed to a new Prime Minister should pause for thought about what it means for Britain in the world. For all his many, many domestic missteps, Keir Starmer has genuinely led on Ukraine, make tough calls with Trump and rebuilt relations with Europe by working intensely with President Macron and Chancellor Merz. Labour in government was shocked at how quickly it was swamped by foreign affairs from Gaza and Ukraine, to Trump and Iran. This isn't going to change. However Starmer's challengers have no foreign policy experience, no geopolitical worldviews, no foreign affairs teams and no experience in explaining our place in the world and its tumult to the public. But if they succeed that will be half their job. What's the plan for a geopolitical pivot to Europe? What's the strategy to deal with Trump and our fragmenting Western alliance as China's Axis of Authoritarians deepens? What's next for Britain's extensive diplomatic and security role when it comes to Ukraine? Who will be maintaining key connections to the White House? Changes at the top are often necessary. But they are delicate and not cost free internationally. In diplomacy so much is bound up in personal connections and trust built up over time. Building since 2016, these musical chairs at the top have now become so intense, with Prime Ministers lasting roughly two years and Foreign Secretaries now annuals, our allies and partners are frustrated. I've heard from European and Gulf leaderships first hand it is hardly worth investing diplomatically in a counterpart who's suddenly gone and thus hardly worth investing in Britain.

Andy Burnham spotted on a London-bound train this morning according to Maurício Alencar.

I do not want a left-right leadership battle in Labour while we're running the govt in time of war and threat. I do not want a "timetable for departure" ending in September. 1/...

🚨 NEW: Catherine West says she may drop her leadership challenge against Keir Starmer today "If it’s an amazing speech, then I will think twice about asking the Parliamentary Labour Party for their support"