Starmer’s support has vanished, even in his own cabinet
One too many scandals, one too many crises, and Labour party is ready for the ‘coronation’ of far-left Andy Burnham.
Failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has only been in office for 22 months, but it seems like a lifetime of suffering for the British people.
From the ‘freebies’ scandal to the Peter Mandelson-Jeffrey Epstein crisis, hardly a week passed by that Starmer didn’t have to scramble to save his premiership.
Now, at long-last, his allies reportedly believe he is ‘preparing to step down’ after his support in his party and even his cabinet has vanished over the weekend.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister
Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today
“A senior government figure told The Telegraph the embattled Prime Minister was realizing that the ‘game is up’ and his thoughts were turning to how he could ‘shore up his legacy’.
They said there had been ‘quite a bit of movement’ among Cabinet ministers since Andy Burnham’s Makerfield by-election victory, leading Sir Keir to reconsider his previous commitment to soldiering on.”
Keir Starmer is preparing to set out a timetable for his departure from No 10 this week after Andy Burnham’s triumphant return to Westminster in the Makerfield byelection.
The former mayor of Manchester, Burham, has won a by-election and got a seat in Parliament to challenge Starmer for the Labour party leadership – and the premiership.
“One Labour MP, who is usually considered to be a loyalist to the Prime Minister, said he believed Sir Keir would announce his departure date as soon as Monday given that his support among MPs was now down to only a handful of “friends and family”.
‘There’s no one left. Literally people whose relatives work in No 10 or people who are long term personal friends of Keir’s are pretty much the only ones left’, they said, adding that trying to stand in the way of Mr. Burnham’s path to Downing Street was ‘like trying to fight gravity’.”
🚨 WOW! Keir Starmer plans to RESIGN ON MONDAY as UK Prime Minister — Observer
"Starmer had reached the conclusion that his position was no longer tenable after speaking to cabinet minister, advisers, donors and trade union leaders," per Reuters
A 36-year-old Scottish man investigated by Counter Terrorism Police – Screengrab Social Media/X
Unchecked mass migration has a price – and the Muslim populations are starting to pay it, too.
Friday night, in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, the inevitable happened: a fed-up white citizen reportedly had the wrong idea and went out in a stabbing spree, apparently targeting Muslim migrants.
Counterterror detectives in Scotland are investigating the attacks after five people were injured.
“Police Scotland said a 36-year-old man was arrested late Friday after officers received multiple reports of attacks in the west and north of the city.
The force said five men — two aged 22, and others aged 24, 27 and 39 — sustained a range of injuries and three needed hospital treatment. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening.”
🚨 BREAKING: A 36-year-old white Scottish man is being investigated by Counter Terrorism Police after five people were stabbed in Edinburgh
He said after his arrest: "I'm protecting the country from these fucking Muslim bastards raping our young daughters" pic.twitter.com/ssrecw0hgi
Images show the man being detained by Scottish police officers while he rants: “I’m protecting the country from these f***ing Muslim bastards raping our young daughters’.
While no one in their right mind can support this kind of behavior, this is an inevitable consequence of the migrant invasion and the widespread rape epidemic affecting the British isles.
“Video posted on social media appeared to show a shirtless man carrying a long weapon roaming a street and battering a restaurant door in the Scottish capital. Another video seemed to show the same man on the ground shouting about ‘protecting the country’ while being held by a police officer.”
A 36-year-old man has been arrested after a series of violent attacks across Edinburgh, appearing to target Muslims, which left five people injured.
On Thursday, June 18, 2026, a 20-year-old man physically assaulted two women, aged 26 and 21, in Magdeburg, injuring both of them.
According to the current state of the investigation, the suspect, who is from Afghanistan, is alleged to have suddenly attacked the 26-year-old German woman shortly after 11 am in the area of Hinter den Holzstrecken street, subsequently striking her several times and strangling her. Witnesses were able to prevent further violence and alerted the police. After receiving first aid at the scene, the victim was admitted to hospital. The police immediately launched an investigation, including examining the crime scene and conducting a police warning conversation with the suspect.
At around 1 pm, the police were informed that a man had attacked a woman in the Lorenzweg area. Police officers, who were dispatched immediately, arrived at the scene to encounter the 20-year-old man, who, according to the current state of the investigation, is alleged to have suddenly attacked the 21-year-old German woman, striking and kicking her several times. In this case too, witnesses were able to stop the suspect from continuing his attacks and hold him until the police arrived. The victim had to be treated as an outpatient at a hospital for the injuries she sustained. The suspect was taken into custody to prevent further offences.
The intensive police investigations carried out in both cases led to the Magdeburg Public Prosecutor’s Office applying for the suspect’s detention this Friday afternoon. The judge presiding at Magdeburg Magistrates’ Court issued an arrest warrant against the suspect on suspicion of attempted manslaughter, following which he was remanded in custody.
French President Emmanuel Macron has shot down the idea of backing a collective European project to establish illegal-migrant return hubs outside the bloc, after the EU Parliament paved the way earlier this week.
Claiming that it is contrary to the supposed values of “Europe”, President Macron said that France will not agree to fund any EU migrant return hubs, nor will Paris seek to partner on an individual basis with a third-party country, as it will be allowed to under the new returns regulations passed on Wednesday in Strasbourg.
Rather than allowing illegals to remain in EU nations while they await deportation, the impending rules will allow European countries to send migrants to holding centres abroad while they seek to return them to their homeland.
The model was initially floated by the former Conservative government in the United Kingdom, which struck an agreement to send illegal boat migrants to Rwanda. However, the programme never got off the ground as it was legally challenged at home by open borders activist attorneys and at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). It was ultimately scrapped by Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on their first day in power in 2024.
A similar scheme was set up by Prime Minsiter Giorgia Meloni’s government in Rome, which partnered with Albania to establish return centres for those who illegally cross the Mediterranean from Africa. Yet this, too, was stymied by judicial activism in Italy and at the European Court of Justice. The passage of new regulations by the European Parliament this week will likely pave the way for the Albania scheme to be revived and potentially expanded, with nearly 20 EU nations expressing interest in such a programme and potentially funding a joint project.
However, it does not appear that France will join such a scheme, at least for the final year of President Macron’s term in office. On the sidelines of a meeting of the European Council in Brussels on Friday, the French leader said of third-party migrant return hubs: “France does not support this policy.”
“I have never seen a return centre in a third country actually work. In recent years, I have heard many people talk about doing this or signing agreements. I urge you to consider what this entails. It means that people who don’t want to return to their country of origin, or whom you are unable to return to their country of origin, will be sent to a third country, and that country will accept them, perhaps in exchange for money,” he said.
“So what kind of country are you building, what kind of relationships are you creating, what kind of human rights are you upholding, and you are pushing all these people into a country that is not their own, even though you don’t want to keep them at home? I’m not sure that this is what our Europe is about,” Macron declared. “I’m not sure that these are the fundamental principles on which our Europe was built.”
“Furthermore, I don’t believe it is effective. The proof is that I have yet to see anyone make it work. I even believe that the countries that had signed preliminary agreements with various members of the European Union or elsewhere have not implemented them. Therefore, we will not implement them, and while I have great respect for all those who wish to do so, I disagree, both pragmatically and in principle,” he said, despite his government’s dismal deportation rate.
The French president said that he would “oppose the use of the European budget” to fund any migrant return centres, claiming that it would make the EU look bad to allies in Africa if they were seen as caring more about illegal migration to Europe rather than combating human trafficking in Africa.
“From my perspective, this should be a matter for each state’s policies; I respect them, but they are not the ones we will implement, and they are not the ones that the budget we will adopt will implement,” he vowed.
However, it remains to be seen if this will be the position of Paris, given the upcoming election in 2027 to decide who will succeed President Macron in the Élysée Palace.
Indeed, potential presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said of Macron’s stance: “After having been the candidate of mass immigration, Emmanuel Macron has since 2017 been the president of organized submersion that has completely destabilized our country.
“For the waning Macronists, as for the left and the far left, mass immigration is a project. For the vast majority of the French, it is a problem and we will resolve it in 2027.”
The Bundeswehr Army Band in Berlin has expanded its repertoire to include Turkish sounds. Alongside traditional military music, the band now also performs oriental pieces featuring the baglama string instrument and the cajón box drum.
The instruments are intended to bring a different soundscape to Bundeswehr music. However, according to the musicians, the pieces are not suitable for marches, but rather for performances outside the traditional military context.
The two soldiers behind these new sounds are Staff Sergeant Ali Eba Balli and Senior Lance Corporal Jan-Ole Meyerdierks. Balli plays the baglama. Meyerdierks accompanies him on the cajón. The duo has already performed at venues including Berlin Cathedral. Turkish music often deals with love, nature, pain and joy, Balli explains to the newspaper Tagesspiegel. According to Balli, he was asked a few years ago by the head of the Army Band, Lieutenant Colonel Reinhard Kiauka, to play the baglama. The instrument had not previously been a regular feature of the band. Meyerdierks, meanwhile, spoke of a marked difference from classical military music. With these pieces, he said, something happens “in the here and now” that isn’t on the sheet music. This is “a completely different contrast to how military music is usually presented”.
In Madrid, a church has set up TV screens for visitors to come watch Spain’s World Cup before the tabernacle, which is shrouded with a red curtain. In Innsbruck Cathedral in Austria, people gather to eat pasta and socialize at a long table in front of another tabernacle, this one left exposed.
Meanwhile, a group of pilgrims traveling with a Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) priest were denied permission to offer the Latin Mass three times in three different cities in Italy. At San Giovanni Rotondo, they were forced to assist at Mass in a hotel basement. At Assisi, they learned that an Orthodox Divine Liturgy was taking place even as they were refused the ability to offer the TLM.
Catholic commentator Chris Jackson recently highlighted how these recent scenes are emblematic of what the postconciliar Church has become, revealing a larger pattern of exploiting instead of honoring the sacred. The full import of these events, however, is best understood through the eyes of Christ.
The first question we must ask is, what does all this mean for God? This is exactly the question that is being ignored in these abuses. The profane use of a consecrated Church, such as by using it as a banquet hall, is a grave sin: a sacrilege.
In fact, Catholic moral theology takes aim at the above-mentioned uses of churches as clear examples of sacrilege. Canon 1210 says only those things that serve worship, piety, or religion are permitted in a sacred place, and “anything not consonant with the holiness of the place is forbidden.” New Advent cites specific examples: “turning the church into a stable or a market,” or “using it as a banquet hall,” exactly what was done in Austria.
Such sacrileges betray either a lack of belief in the Real Presence of Christ there, a total lack of comprehension of His holiness, or a refusal to treat God as God, to honor His Presence with reverence and love. They further refuse to recognize His ownership over His Church.
The scene that helps us to understand how deeply offensive sacrilege of a church is to God is the cleansing of the Temple, when Christ overturned the tables of money changers and drove them out with a whip in His righteous anger. Their sin, first and foremost, was that they violated the sacredness of God’s temple. As in the case of other profane uses of a church, the sin is basically the rough equivalent of turning one’s back on God.
How much more offensive is the sacrilege of a Catholic church, where Christ is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament! I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Christ would be smashing televisions in the Church of San Antón in Madrid.
As these sacrileges take place — in many more Catholic churches than the two mentioned above — Catholics are denied the right to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in its traditional form on a local level, with the sanction of the highest (apparent) authority in the Church. This is the flipside of the sacrilege. As priests turn their backs on God by relegating their churches for profane use, they forbid the Mass that honors God with profound reverence and loving care, far more than the Novus Ordo.
At least just as much as sacrilege, such attempts to banish, snuff out, and exclude the traditional Latin Mass call upon the wrath of God. This was explicitly and authoritatively declared in St. Pius V’s bull Quo Primum, which declared that the Tridentine Mass is to be “freely and lawfully” used without “fear of incurring any penalty, judgement, or censure,” and that no priest is “obliged” to celebrate any other Mass. It stated that anyone who presumes to alter Quo Primum, of which forbidding the Latin Mass is the equivalent, “will incur the wrath of Almighty God.”
Taken altogether, the profane uses of churches and bans on the Latin Mass show an aversion to the sacred, to honoring God with serious reverence. How could clergy act so contrary to the mission of the Church and God Himself?
Clergy act with such aversion either because they have sinister intentions and are wolves in sheep’s clothing; or because having drifted from God, their consciences are burdened, and they are therefore uncomfortable with deep expressions of reverence, because such gestures reflect God’s greatness like a shadow. They cannot bear this because it stings their conscience.
By contrast, the Novus Ordo Mass obscures the holiness of God and allows people to treat God as a vague figment of their imagination to their own liking.
Besides offending God, forbidding the Latin Mass in any circumstance does a huge disservice to Catholics. It deprives them of a sense of who God is by failing to do justice to His greatness and His perfect purity. This even takes away from the meaning of His love and mercy. If we don’t have a sense of God’s great holiness and our own lowliness, how can we truly appreciate His mercy? And, therefore, the greatness of His love?
As Jackson suggests, indeed, a casual approach to God and discomfort with proper manifestations of the sacred are characteristic of the post-Vatican II, conciliar Church. The banishment of the traditional Mass to the “catacombs” is the logical conclusion of this attitude.
Who and what drives an aversion to the sacred? I don’t need to spell it out for you.
A 29-year-old Afghan man is now under arrest for murdering his mother-in-law, a 60-year-old Afghan woman in the German city of Elsenfeld.
On Sunday evening, a major emergency operation was triggered near the Elsenfeld train station in the Miltenberg district after bystanders discovered an unconscious woman who suffered multiple stab wounds between the station and Bahnhofstrasse around 6:00 p.m.
The witnesses immediately notified emergency services and law enforcement. Medical personnel transported the 60-year-old victim to a nearby hospital, but she succumbed to her injuries shortly after arrival.
On June 15, it was announced that a 27-year-old Afghan man walked into the Obernburg police station and surrendered to police. He was taken into custody without any resistance and spent the night in prison. Police determined he entered the country in 2016 and his mother-in-law arrived in 2015, according to German news outlet InFranken.de.
Following an inquiry, the Aschaffenburg public prosecutor’s office confirmed that the murder weapon, a knife, has been recovered. The suspect is scheduled to appear before a prison judge for a screening on Monday at 2 p.m.
The Aschaffenburg criminal police and the public prosecutor’s office have assumed control of the local investigation, which has so far involved gathering forensic evidence and questioning initial witnesses. So far, a motive behind the murder remains unclear.
In response to the tragedy, Tobias Bozem, the press spokesman for the Lower Franconia police, addressed local anxieties regarding public safety. He noted, “The recent events in Elsenfeld and the district of Miltenberg can of course affect the citizens’ sense of security. We take this very seriously.”
When questioned about an apparent rise in violent incidents across the Miltenberg district, such as a recent machete assault on a young man in Mömlingen and another knife attack near the Elsenfeld station, Bozem emphasized that current evidence shows no link between the crimes. He explained, “In most cases, there were also indications of existing identification or a relationship between the people involved. The background of the individual acts is the subject of the ongoing investigations and will be examined separately in each case.”
Council leaders are considering plans that could see thousands of small boat migrants housed alongside social housing tenants.
Around 10,000 asylum seekers are expected to move into residential properties across London, the South East and Wales under the proposals, with some developments set to be shared between migrants and local authority tenants.
The plans emerged during a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing, where Clearspring Ready Homes, one of the Government’s largest asylum accommodation providers, confirmed it is in talks with two councils over mixed-use housing schemes.
The company said the sites had originally been earmarked for social housing but were considered too large to be used solely for that purpose.
Under the proposals, the developments would be split between asylum seekers and so-called “move-on” accommodation for migrants who have been granted permission to remain in the UK.
Chris Lakey, chief executive of Clearspring Ready Homes, told MPs the firm’s priority was moving asylum seekers out of hotels and into dispersal accommodation.
“Our main thrust has always been to come away from hotels and to try to get back to our core business, which, as you quite rightly identified, is dispersal accommodation,” he said.
Mr Lakey revealed the company had submitted proposals for 10,000 additional bed spaces to the Home Office, with around half already prepared for use.
“They are proposed, ready to go, and waiting to be turned live,” he said.
Discussing the mixed-use developments, he added: “We are working with two local authorities at the moment that have sites that they are hoping to use for social housing, but they are too big for that.”
Around 2,500 asylum seekers are expected to move into new properties in the coming weeks.
More than 68,700 asylum seekers are already living in dispersal accommodation across Britain, including houses, flats, bedsits and houses in multiple occupation.
The committee also heard concerns over the cost of the accommodation.
At the Crowborough site, housing around 350 asylum seekers costs £160 per person per night – £16 more than the average hotel room.
Home Office minister Alex Norris said those costs were expected to fall to around £135 per night by the end of the year, making the site cheaper than hotel accommodation.
“The commitment we have made and our belief is that these types of sites should tread as lightly as possible on the local community’s lives,” Mr Norris told MPs.
He added that the expansion of dispersal accommodation would help reduce reliance on hotels.
Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham criticised what he described as “HMO Britain”, arguing the Home Office needed to rethink how it procured asylum accommodation.
“I heard on so many doorsteps people’s concerns about the unfairness of the immigration system, that cut price approach to procurement that means areas like this can end up like HMO Britain,” he said.
Labour MP Chris Murray also questioned why billions of pounds were being paid to private contractors rather than councils and housing associations.
“Why would we give that £15 billion to a private company and not a council or a housing association if they were able to provide that?” he asked.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has pledged to end the use of migrant hotels before the next election.
A spokesman for the Home Office said: “We do not recognise these figures. We are closing every asylum hotel and moving asylum seekers into basic accommodation including ex-military sites.
“This is an important step in ending the perception you can arrive in the UK illegally and be put up in a hotel.
“We have already seen results. The population of asylum seekers in hotels has fallen by 35 per cent in the last year and by 63 per cent from the peak under the previous Government.
“Overall asylum costs have already fallen by nearly £1billion since this Government was elected.”
The Netherlands is spending millions of euros each year on a rapidly expanding network of Islamic schools, even as concerns grow over integration, foreign influence, and the emergence of a new religious pillar within Dutch society.
More than 20,000 pupils were attending Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands at the beginning of 2025, with the number continuing to rise, according to NieuwRechts.
Between 2009 and 2019, enrolment in Islamic primary schools increased by 60%. In the following five years, it rose by a further 23%. Nine new Islamic primary schools are expected to open in 2026, bringing the total to more than 100 nationwide. Islamic secondary schools are also expanding rapidly.
The growth has been helped by reforms that lowered the threshold for establishing new schools. Introduced in the name of educational diversity, the changes have made it easier for faith-based institutions to secure public funding.
As a result, Dutch taxpayers now spend vast sums on Islamic education. NieuwRechts cites figures showing that, with roughly 20,700 pupils enrolled and average funding exceeding €7,000 per child, public support for Islamic primary schools alone amounts to nearly €145 million a year.
Alongside the formal school system, there has also been a significant increase in evening and weekend schools that operate largely outside the supervision of education inspectors. Their stated aim is often to strengthen Islamic identity among young people, with religious instruction at the centre of the curriculum.
Concerns about these institutions have grown in recent years. Dutch intelligence and security services have warned that foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have sought influence through funding for mosques, Islamic schools, and informal educational programmes. Those concerns helped prompt legislation aimed at restricting foreign influence in religious institutions, although the Dutch Senate ultimately rejected the proposal.
Critics also point to the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has long advocated the gradual Islamisation of society and the establishment of states governed by Sharia law. They argue that publicly funded Islamic institutions can, even unintentionally, provide an environment in which such ideas gain influence.
Supporters of Islamic schools argue that parents should be free to choose an education that reflects their beliefs. Yet that raises a difficult question for a secular state: should taxpayers be required to fund schools whose primary purpose is to strengthen a separate religious identity?
As the number of Islamic schools continues to grow, that question is likely to become increasingly difficult for Dutch politicians to avoid.
When the cameras aren’t rolling German police officers, on the front line of the migrant crisis, give their unvarnished account of the state of the nation, finding “the Germany we know is disappearing”.
A German investigative journalist has urged her fellow countrymen to “listen to police officers” and their experiences and “act accordingly”. German broadsheet newspaper Die Weltreports the words of Liv von Boetticher who said she had spoken to police officers across Germany, “from all departments, of all ages, and from all federal states”.
The journalist said she was prompted to come forwards with what she’d learnt after noticing speaking to her officers told a very different and unvarnished account of Germany after official interviews had finished and the cameras stopped rolling. Having given the official line their jobs may depend on to be taped, afterward they related what she called “stories of fear and anger, violence, loss of control, and failed migration policies, and the feeling among law enforcement officers of often being abandoned by politics and society.”
Sometimes being able to spin the truth of how Germany is now is a struggle for even specialist police officers, she said, adding: “I have repeatedly witnessed press officers struggling to find the right words to make absurd situations acceptable and bearable in front of the camera.”
Von Boetticher reflected to Welt that the “pretty much unanimous opinion was: It’s getting worse and worse” and had been told by one police officer that “the Germany we know is disappearing”. Others said that “in Germany it is open season for robbery and rape” and she was told “Even the most serious crimes often have surprisingly few consequences. Far too often, perpetrators more or less get away with it.”
Of her experience of talking to Berlin cops, Von Boetticher noted that city was a “hotspot”, in a level of trouble beyond the rest of the country. She said: “Some police officers have even told me, quite literally, “We’ve already lost this country” or “This country is finished.” At the same time, I want to emphasize that this is a process taking place, and there’s still a theoretical chance of turning things around. But that would have to happen quickly.”
The despairing attitude of German police officers comes despite a decade-long effort to purge Germany’s police forces of mass migration-critical officers and supporters of populist-right border control party the Alternative for Germany (AFD). That push to get conservatives out of the police continues today, with the country’s senior policeman saying in 2025 that supporting AFD is “incompatible” with being a police officer and German states seeking to ban AfD party members from taking government jobs at all.
