25 Jul 2024

UK: Starmer's left-wing woes, Tory leadership race

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 25 July 2024
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of his cabinet's first meeting in Downing Street in London on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Claudia Greco / POOL / AFP)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the end of his cabinet's first meeting in Downing Street in London on 6 July 2024. Photo: CLAUDIA GRECO / AFP

UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk about the pressure new Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under from the left wing of his party - with a rebellion from seven MPs over the issue of family benefits.

Who are the contenders to be the new leader of the Tories?

And one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians, Charlotte Dujardin, has been pulled from Paris over a two-year old video of her whipping a horse.

Hugo Gye is Political Editor of The i Paper, based in the House of Commons press gallery.