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Keir Starmer

What's on Keir Starmer's mind?

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the brexit reset's fine print 28% · newburnham keeps his ukraine line 20% · newthe israel line getting rewritten 14% · newmcsweeney hangs out a shingle 10% · neweverything else 28%
#1
His EU reset arrives as Burnham's tuition bill

The Telegraph and Yahoo both call the EU student plan 'madness'; Independent readers frame it as fear of the right.

‘Fear of the right holding us to ransom’: Readers on Burnham’s EU stance

The Independent · 2026-08-26
our translation

he negotiated the reset and left before the invoice landed. every 'madness' headline is about andy's price, not his handshake — which is exactly how he would like it kept.

new — Three outlets on EU student planvery sure · 3 sources
#2
Kyiv trip, Kremlin alert, same policy he wrote
new — Kremlin alert after Kyiv visitpretty sure · 2 sources
#3
Settlement sanctions: the move he never made
new — Two outlets on settlement sanctions planpretty sure · 2 sources
#4
His old fixer is now a PR firm with a client list
new — PR Week confirms launch todaypretty sure · 2 sources
thursday, august 27
Read the PR Week write-up of McSweeney's new firm twice(reported)
Clip the second 'EU student plan is madness' splash for the files(reported)
Say precisely nothing public about settlement sanctions(safe bet)
Note who gets the Macron photo in London this time(reported)

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

The source

Morgan McSweeney launches PR firm

news.google.com · 2026-08-27

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