Keir Starmer's support for “Israel's” genocide in Gaza—both before taking office and throughout his premiership—became one of the most politically damaging issues of his leadership.

After the Labour Party's crushing defeat in the recent local elections, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer finds himself politically besieged by a growing internal rebellion and public calls for his resignation.

Just hours after London allowed Washington on March 20, 2026, to use its Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean to strike Iran, U.S. sources claimed Tehran launched two missiles toward the facility, nearly 4,000 kilometers away, with one failing and the other intercepted.

Under what it calls a “social cohesion action plan,” the British government announced on March 10, 2026 the adoption of its first official working definition of anti Muslim hostility, set out in a document titled “Protecting What Matters.”

The UK High Court ruled that the government’s ban on the campaign group Palestine Action as a terror group was unlawful, disproportionate and breached free speech rights.