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Starmer given a lifeline after Streeting challenge fails to materialise

leadership bid after Starmer issued a ‘put up or shut up’ ultimatum to his cabinet. Streeting was due to hold talks with Starmer on Wednesday, at which he was expected to talk candidly about

Watch: Reporter told to pose as gay for asylum claim

Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership. Politics](/news/videos/cj414qprxkvo) [ ## Watch: Lib Dems MPs heckle Farage as he presents

Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and cut benefits

Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting) of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground, warning that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means

Labour must offer more than ‘better managed decline’ on economy, MPs urge

Keir Starmer [fighting to ward off a leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/12/keir-starmer-prime-minister-resignation-labour-leadership-cabinet-meeting-yvette-cooper-shabana-mahmood-andy-burnham-wes-streeting-uk-politics-latest-news-updates), the leading backbenchers from the soft-left [Tribune](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/06/labour-mps-revive-tribune-to-take-on-reform) group published a series of essays calling for bolder action to salvage

Jennie Formby, Labour’s former general secretary, says she has joined Greens

Starmer’s leadership, saying he started to break his promises almost as soon as he became leader. “Keir was elected on a bunch of things he immediately reneged on,” she said. “He does not have

Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

issues. And then there was Labour. A year ago, it looked like Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar had a good shot at returning to power in Holyrood, but in 2026 that seems out of reach

Close Starmer ally declines to say if he will lead Labour into next election

Keir Starmer’s closest aides has declined to say whether he would lead his party into the next election amid mounting calls for him to resign. The prime minister is “listening to colleagues

Political parties make final pitches ahead of key elections

Labour government and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, whose leadership has come under pressure in recent months. There has been speculation of a challenge to his leadership should the results prove to be disastrous

The race to replace Starmer is on - but he still faces a momentous choice

Keir Starmer got under way](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21e79qqlgo). But there are plenty of choices that still face him - decisions that affect us all, and one vital one that he alone must make. If everything goes

Starmer to meet Streeting on Wednesday as leadership crisis divides Labour

issue a statement declaring that Sir Keir should not lead the party into the next general election. The uncertainty over Sir Keir's job security [is an awkward backdrop to the King's Speech

TUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election

Keir Starmer’s government and warned that significant change is needed to prevent Reform UK from winning power. In his first intervention as the battle rages over the future of the Labour leadership

Labour MPs have put Starmer on notice after election battering. Can he turn it around?

leadership, but even Sir Keir Starmer's most loyal ministers are pushing him to change - and fast. The prime minister is nothing if not a determined man. But can he show he can turn

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

Keir Starmer shakes hands with Harriet Harman outside No 10](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7814deefd0f07178b8329dd1ca91e98ce4c172a3/0_0_1920_1080/master/1920.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Harriet Harman was Labour’s deputy leader under Gordon Brown. Photograph: International Pool/PA With the bulk of the votes now counted from

Andy Burnham to make bid to return to Commons as pressure mounts on Starmer

Starmer's leadership. Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor, said he would seek permission to run for Labour in Makerfield after Labour MP Josh Simons said he would resign to make way for him. It came

Andy Burnham: 'King of the North' with eyes on the top job

leadership contests. More than 10 years ago he ran twice, unsuccessfully, for the top job. Now he's backed by many Labour MPs as the party's best chance of recovery, after months of languishing

Drakeford links Welsh Labour's collapse to lack of new powers from UK government

Keir Starmer to set a timetable for his resignation.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9p84z9wv7o) Labour lost control of the Welsh government to pro-independence Plaid Cymru at the 7 May election, and was pushed into third place

Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow

Keir Starmer does so while pleading with his party, in public and in private, to cut out all the chat about his future and who might replace him. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, is travelling

Chris Mason: Why a coffee is overshadowing the King's Speech

Keir Starmer to cabinet ministers after Tuesday's cabinet meeting and an offer Streeting took up. It was a very short meeting - under 20 minutes - and we may not know what happened in Number

‘Social media should be treated like tobacco’: Streeting calls for under-16s ban on certain platforms

Keir Starmer’s leadership of the country and the Labour party, was known as one of the strongest advocates for a ban within the cabinet. But he encountered resistance from some colleagues over concerns about

‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting

parties had increasingly adopted rhetoric once associated with the far right. “The Conservative leadership uses the same language as Nigel Farage, and the Labour right responds to that,” he said. “The people who have nothing