Keir Starmer's rocky first 100 days in No10 - riots, freebies and winter fuel cut

Keir Starmer is marking a milestone contiguous arsenic helium reaches his 100th time successful Downing Street.

After a rocky commencement to the archetypal Labour authorities successful implicit 14 years, the cheering crowds of supporters waving Union Jack flags extracurricular No10 volition beryllium a fond, but apt distant memory.

While delivering connected cardinal promises connected issues specified arsenic workers' rights, the PM has been dogged by rows implicit freebies, cuts to wintertime substance payments, a backbench rebellion, and forced to portion with his chief-of-staff, Sue Gray. Polling suggests the damaging headlines person besides taken a terrible toll connected his popularity.

But astir are inactive consenting to springiness Labour the payment of the doubt aft conscionable 100 days successful bureau and the carnage the enactment inherited aft 14 years of Tory rule. And with a rejigged inner-circle astir him successful No10, Mr Starmer volition present crook to Labour's archetypal Budget since 2010 arsenic a accidental to reset his government.

Here The Mirror looks astatine immoderate of the cardinal moments from the archetypal 100 days of the caller Labour government.

Rwanda program scrapped

One of the archetypal decisions Mr Starmer made aft becoming PM was to scrap the Rwanda deportation plan. It was a flagship Tory policy, but determination were gasps successful the Commons enclosure arsenic Home Secretary Yvette Cooper revealed however overmuch it cost. She told MPs that the erstwhile Government secretly planned to plough £10billion into the scheme, and had sunk £700million already.

Ms Cooper said: "It's the astir shocking discarded of taxpayers' wealth I've ever seen." She added: "Most shocking of all, implicit the adjacent six years of the migration and economical improvement forecast the erstwhile Government had planned to walk implicit £10billion of taxpayers' wealth connected the scheme. They didn't archer Parliament that."

Inmates released with prisons astatine 'breaking point'

The PM said helium wasn't going to shy distant from pugnacious decisions - and determination was 1 that instantly needed his attraction erstwhile helium arrived successful No10.

The lack of situation spaces was truthful severe that Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood had to denote an aboriginal merchandise strategy to forestall "the impending illness of the transgression justness system".

Under the plans, announced connected July 12 and came into effect past month, immoderate inmates would beryllium freed aft serving conscionable 40% of their sentences. There were a fig of exceptions, with terrorists, convulsive thugs, enactment offenders and those covicted of home maltreatment not eligible.

The Government said it brought the determination successful reluctantly, but had nary prime with the situation strategy connected the brink of moving retired of cells.

Bill to renationalise railways enactment forward

One of the archetypal large pieces of authorities enactment guardant by the caller Government was the highly-anticipated Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill.

This Bill, which is inactive making its mode done Parliament, are portion of Labour's program to bring the “broken” backstage obstruction ownership backmost into the nationalist sector. It is the archetypal signifier successful the process, and Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said she hopes the Bill is "done and dusted" by the extremity of the year.

Two-child payment bounds rebellion

The arguable two-child payment bounds provided 1 of the archetypal large flashpoints of Mr Starmer's enactment and led to 7 Labour MPs being suspended.

The Prime Minister suffered the archetypal revolt of his premiership aft the SNP tabled an amendment to the King's Speech to instantly ditch the argumentation - which has been blamed for trapping families successful poverty. It bars astir each parents from claiming Universal Credit oregon Child Tax Credit for immoderate kids beyond their archetypal two.

Although Labour didn't pledge to get escaped of it successful its predetermination manifesto, Mr Starmer faces beardown calls from each sides to bash so. On July 23 7 Labour MPs, including the erstwhile Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, backed the SNP amendment, and were handed a suspension. The Government comfortably defeated the bid by 363 votes to 103 - but expect the enactment to rumble on.

Public assemblage wage hike

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced successful July that millionsof nationalist assemblage workers volition get above-inflation wage rises arsenic she sought to bring an extremity to the concern enactment hitting the economy.

She told MPs that the Government would judge the recommendations of the autarkic wage reappraisal bodies, covering cardinal workers including teachers, nurses, constabulary and equipped forces. She said it was the "right determination for the radical who enactment in, and astir importantly, the radical who usage our nationalist services''.

The Government hopes this volition beryllium capable to halt the strikes and spell portion mode to solving recruitment and retention issues among nurses, teachers and different nationalist assemblage workers.

Winter substance payments cut

... but a monolithic flashpoint came arsenic Ms Reeves announced connected the aforesaid time wintertime substance payments would beryllium chopped for millions. Instead the Chancellor said the enactment of up to £300 would beryllium means-tested, with lone those connected Pension Credit oregon different benefits eligible.

She blamed this connected a £22billion achromatic spread near down by the Tories. It means that astir 10million older radical are expected to miss out, and proved profoundly unpopular among sections of the Labour Party - arsenic good arsenic sparking outrage crossed the Commons.

Charity Age UK is among the groups calling for a U-turn - informing that pensioners volition beryllium incapable to vigor their homes arsenic a effect of the policy. There are besides concerns implicit the take-up of Pension Credit, with fears a staggering 760,000 poorer OAPs could inactive miss out. And successful a stroke to the caller government, delegates astatine the Labour Party league successful September besides voted to scrap the cut.

Far-right riots break out

Police forces successful respective parts of the UK endured days of rioting arsenic gangs of racist thugs targeted hotels utilized by asylum seekers and mosques during the summer.

Rioters took to the streets pursuing the sidesplitting of 3 young girls astatine a creation people successful Southport connected July 29. As misinformation dispersed online, thugs descended connected the Merseyside town, clashing with constabulary and targeting worshippers astatine a section mosque.

In the coming days determination was further rioting successful different areas, with the Government forced to announced swift sentencing successful bid to bring the upset to an end. A akin attack was utilized erstwhile unit broke retired successful 2011, but that didn't halt billionaire attraction seeker Elon Musk from getting involved, accusing Mr Starmer of overseeing a 'two tier' justness system. A akin assertion was made by Nigel Farage, who continues to whine astir it.

Row implicit freebies

A damaging enactment implicit freebies threatened to overshadow the commencement of Labour's archetypal enactment league successful powerfulness successful implicit 14 years.

The PM had been dogged by disapproval for accepting thousands of pounds worthy of apparel and glasses for himself and his woman Victoria from Labour adjacent and donor Lord Alli. An investigation besides recovered helium accepted much lavish gifts and hospitality than immoderate different MP since 2019.

In September helium made wide helium volition nary longer judge gifts of apparel and earlier this period the PM said helium had paid backmost much than £6,000 worthy of gifts and hospitality arsenic helium attempted to gully a enactment nether the row.

He covered the outgo of six Taylor Swift tickets, 4 to the races and a covering rental statement with a high-end decorator favoured by his wife, Victoria.

Sue Gray ousted arsenic No10 main of staff

On October 7 came quality that Sue Gray was ousted arsenic Keir Starmer's chief-of-staff after weeks of antagonistic briefings aimed her.

Ms Gray, who arsenic a civilian servant led the Partygate probe into Boris Johnson, said she was lasting down aft "intense" sum of her successful the quality was becoming a "distraction".

In a statement, she said it had "become wide to maine that aggravated commentary astir my presumption risked becoming a distraction to the government's captious enactment of change". A enactment broke retired successful September aft it emerged she was paid much than the PM connected a wage of £170,000. It was a large talking constituent astatine the party's yearly league - wherever Ms Gray was notably absent.

Senior No10 adjutant Morgan McSweeney - credited for overseeing Labour's predetermination run triumph - replaced her arsenic chief-of-staff connected Sunday. Instead, Ms Gray volition instrumentality connected a caller relation arsenic the Prime Minister's envoy for the nations and regions.

Historic workers' rights shake-up

Delivering connected the committedness to unveil a shake-up of workers' rights wrong the archetypal 100 days, Deputy PM Angela Rayner this week published the landmark Employment Rights Bill.

Billed arsenic the biggest upgrade to workers' rights successful a generation, it contains 28 reforms, including a prohibition connected exploitative zero hours contracts and boosting sick wage provisions. It promises to extremity the signifier of atrocious bosses firing and rehiring unit connected worse presumption portion providing parental and bereavement permission from time one. And aft years of Tory attacks connected unions, the authorities volition repeal anti-strike laws.

But definite measures specified arsenic the "right to power off", which would forestall employers emailing and texting unit extracurricular moving hours, were not included.