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Burnham: 'People in Britain can't afford a good life'

Labour candidate for the Makerfield by-election next month told [BBC Radio Manchester](https://www.bbc.co.uk

‘Toxic’ views of Reform UK candidates raise questions about party’s vetting

Labour is preparing to run a party election broadcast on Friday that will seek to expose

Four key excerpts from Streeting's resignation letter

Labour Party and the country [in his resignation letter.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8p7p83vdzo) But he stops

Starmer needs sharper survival strategy if he is to stay on

Labour leader [Anas Sarwar called for Starmer to resign](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/scottish-labour-leader-anas-sarwar-keir-starmer-to-stand-down). Alongside Amy Richards

‘He’s a natural’: Andy Burnham’s allies give his social media style a thumbs up

Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) MP for York Outer, is delighted to see, arguing that his party

End of Trump tariffs on whisky sparks row between Scottish parties over claiming credit

Labour party, UK government ministers and [John Swinney](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/john-swinney), Scotland’s first minister

Who is Zack Polanski, UK Greens leader and rising political star?

Labour Party](/news/2026/5/5/starmers-referendum-how-local-elections-could-expose-a-fractured-uk), is banking on a political breakthrough in British local elections this week

Reform UK will never take voters for granted, Yusuf says

Labour in its northern and Midlands heartlands. Reform UK came second in the Welsh Parliament

Starmer sets out changes to education, health and courts in king’s speech

Labour MPs and voters. The prime minister unveiled his legislative programme for the next parliamentry

Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth voted first minister of Wales

Labour hegemony and held off Reform UK. Ap Iorwerth was confirmed after a plenary vote

Andy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’, allies say

Labour’s ruling body from running in February’s Gorton and Denton byelection](https://www.theguardian.com

French PM fuels row with trip to buy baguettes

Labour Day, reigniting a row with unions who argue that 1 May should remain a compulsory

The city caught in the middle of the big energy shift debate

Labour support a net zero target for Scotland of 2045. Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour

‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny

Labour MPs set out their visions for what the party should be doing instead. The Labour

‘I’ll talk to work on Monday’: what happens when a ‘paper candidate’ actually wins

Labour’s worst results on record, meant many new candidates were elected. In Camden, a byelection

We can't abolish leasehold outright, minister says

Labour's 2024 general election manifesto, the party promised to "finally bring the feudal leasehold

Starmer ally admits prime minister is ‘unpopular’ but warns of ‘chaos’ if leadership contest triggered – UK politics live

Labour party **will not copy the chaos we saw under the Conservatives.”** Labour MP **Josh

Chris Mason: PM confronts his most difficult day as party revolts

Labour MPs posting their public loss of confidence in the prime minister with such frequency

UK migration drops to 171,000 - almost half 2024's figure

Labour needed to "go further". The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said net migration continued

Australia’s unemployment rate jumps to 4.5% in ‘tentative signs labour market is buckling’

labour market is buckling’ Australia’s unemployment rate has jumped to 4.5% in April to reach