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Wes Streeting pledges 'wealth tax that works'

policy on the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, in his first in-depth broadcast interview following his resignation as health secretary last week. He quit the cabinet after dozens of Labour MPs urged Prime Minister

UK ex-health minister says will run to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer

policy changes. More than 80 MPs in the British parliament have urged him to quit, while four junior ministers have stepped down. Some Labour politicians appear to be rallying around Burnham. On Thursday, Labour

UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

Labour Party MPs have indicated that if the party performs poorly in Scotland, loses power in Wales, and fails to hold many of the roughly 2,500 council seats it is defending in England, then

What did Keir Starmer say in ‘last chance’ speech to save his premiership?

party’s national executive committee (NEC). Labour went on to lose the perviously safe seat, coming third to the Greens and Reform. Burnham allies, of who there are quite a few among Labour MPs, will

Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say

Labour official and [Starmer’s biographer](https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/shattered-allegiances-and-broken-friendships-litter-the-streets-of-westminster), said: “If Burnham says things which put him in opposition to a much closer relationship with Europe, or appears to adopt a hard line on immigration

Burnham starts byelection campaign with thinly veiled pitch for No 10

policy views, including on economy, immigration and electoral reform. Asked if he would want Starmer to campaign locally for him, Burnham dodged the question, telling reporters only that “anyone who agrees with me” would

What does Makerfield make of by-election and can Burnham win?

Labour in general have let the whole country down, not just this [area]. Nobody's got any faith in Keir Starmer... he's not done enough." He said he was sceptical of Burnham's motives

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

Starmer insisted that he “won’t walk away” from the leadership as doing so would “plunge the party into chaos”, although he acknowledged that voters were fed up with the slow pace of change

Labour likely to win next election with Burnham as leader, say party members – UK politics live

party into the next election. But 66% say that Starmer has done either a fairly good (50%) or very good (16%) job as PM. - **Angela Rayner, the former deputy PM, has the highest favourability ratings

‘Hold the line’: Burnham tells allies in parliament he still has options to return

Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) said that in order to win over some he would have to distance himself from elements of the energy policies promoted by Ed Miliband because the GMB and others

Plaid Cymru leader says he hopes to be made first minister as early as Tuesday

Starmer can change his ways or Labour can choose someone else to do things in a different way.” He also said he believed there could be cooperation with the other nationalist parties in Scotland

Wes Streeting quits cabinet and calls on Starmer to resign

party into the next general election and that Labour MPs and Labour unions want the debate about what comes next to be a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism. It needs

‘Leader of the pack’: What next as Reform makes huge election gains?

policies.” Yet, as Starmer faces a fight to stay on as party leader, Reform UK’s seismic gains in England – which, as the largest of the UK’s four constituent nations, accounts for more than

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

Starmer is highly unlikely to play any part in facilitating Burnham’s return, and the two are not on good terms. Members of Labour’s national executive committee – which blocked Burnham from standing in Gorton

British leader Keir Starmer under pressure after heavy election losses

party system of Labour and the Conservatives has been smashed, with Reform taking the most votes, and the Greens, Conservatives, Labour and the centrist Liberal Democrats bunched up behind. While Starmer does not have

AI platforms reference Nigel Farage more than other leaders when prompted on UK politics, study shows

policy?” The research found that Farage surfaced more than [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) in responses to queries across multiple AI systems. It also found that AI platforms gave greater visibility to Labour

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

policies on workers’ rights, which is important to me – all these things made me want to join the Green party and I want to do everything I can to support them.” She said had voted

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

Starmer’s government](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/29/louise-haigh-resigns-as-transport-secretary) after it emerged she had been convicted of fraud over a missing work phone, is seen as a key power broker on the left of the party

Badenoch says Labour ‘just want a better salesman’. It would be a good start

Starmer tried to generate positivity around the waiting lists and economic news. But the messaging that Labour is already improving people’s lives is not strong enough. The prime minister’s seeming inability to tell

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

Labour MPs, meaning someone from the party’s left, whether Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, or Angela Rayner, Starmer’s former deputy, could dive in. But at the same time, such is the dislike