Here are 5 important things happening in the UK today, Tuesday 23 September 2025.
- Starmer to launch fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right: Prime Minister Keir Starmer will make a major intervention this week, pledging a progressive fightback and promising the UK will reject the division and hate fuelled by the far right. The move comes ahead of Labour’s conference amid increasing pressure on the prime minister from within his own party, where even senior loyalists have voiced fears that he has not mounted a passionate enough attack on Reform UK and rising racism in Britain. [Guardian]
- New rules for GPs: GPs in England are being urged to “think again” if they see a sick patient three times and can’t pin down a diagnosis, or find their symptoms are getting worse. The new NHS initiative, called Jess’s Rule, is named after Jessica Brady who contacted her GP on more than 20 occasions after starting to feel unwell in the summer of 2020. She was told her symptoms were related to long Covid and that she was “too young for cancer”. She died from advanced stage 4 cancer later that year, aged 27. [BBC]
- Fraud concerns lead to shutdown of Corbyn’s new party website: The membership portal for Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-Left party was shut down following complaints of “potentially fraudulent activity”. The former Labour leader’s latest venture descended into further chaos over the weekend as the “unauthorised” registration page launched by Zarah Sultana, his co-leader, stopped working, blocking supporters from signing up. Existing members now appear to be locked out of their accounts. [Telegraph]
- Push to raise income tax to cover deficit: Rachel Reeves has been urged to increase income tax to shift the burden for balancing the books away from workers and on to pensioners by a think tank with close links to Labour. The Resolution Foundation said the Chancellor should increase income tax by two pence in the pound while at the same time cutting the rate of national insurance by the same amount. The move would raise £6 billion. [The Times]
- On Tuesday, Oil was trading lower at $65.69. The pound is trading at $1.35, €1.14, and ¥9.61.
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