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Keir Starmer

What's on Keir Starmer's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
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the brexit reset's fine print 22% · newsue gray calls his no 10 unbearable 18% burnham keeps his ukraine line 13% · newthe donors drifting back to the tories 9% · neweverything else 38%
#1
The 100,000-a-year deal he thought about and didn't do

The FT says he weighed letting 100,000 young Europeans into the UK each year; Burnham has just bolted his red lines shut.

Keir Starmer considered letting 100,000 young Europeans come to UK every year

Financial Times · 2026-08-23
our translation

the bold version of his eu reset lived only in a memo, and now his successor has fossilised the cautious version he actually announced. the fine print outlived the vision.

new — FT reveals the 100,000 figurepretty sure · 2 sources
#2
'Unbearable' is now a management-magazine case study
HR trade press picks it upvery sure · 1 source
#3
His Ukraine policy landed in Kyiv without him
new — Burnham arrives in Kyiv todaypretty sure · 2 sources
#4
The chequebooks are wandering back to the Tories
new — Billionaire backer weighs a Tory returnhonestly, a hunch · 2 sources
monday, august 24
Watch the Kyiv pictures roll in and post nothing(reported)
Read the FT youth-mobility scoop twice, then close the tab(reported)
Draft a reply to Sue Gray; do not send it(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Burnham to give Ukraine blueprints for long-range missiles as he visits Kyiv

news.google.com · 2026-08-24

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