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leadership,” Powell said.  Lucy Powell said: ‘We don’t do hospital takeovers in the Labour party
parties contend for power.” Morgan added that the vote in Wales had not been about Keir Starmer’s leadership, and she “took responsibility” for the people “rejecting Welsh Labour
Labour Party [suffered significant losses in local and regional elections](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5817491/uk-elections-keir-starmer-resign-reform-green) last week, highlighting the increasing unpopularity of Starmer's leadership
Labour’s candidate for the [Makerfield byelection](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/makerfield-byelection) earlier this week, and is widely expected to seek to run for the party leadership if he wins the seat, either by challenging Keir Starmer
Labour “cannot continue on its current path”, and despite some progress it was not doing enough to deliver the change people voted for at the last election. They urged the party leadership to focus
Labour party rules mean that potential leadership candidates must secure nominations from at least 20% of the parliamentary party in order to force a contest. The party has 403 MPs, meaning potential challengers would need
Starmer’s leadership. Barring a drastic change in fortunes, Labour’s vote-share could fall to historic lows across elections for councils in England and devolved parliaments in Wales and [Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland)
Labour MPs and she could struggle to get support from party members. Under the party rules, there is nothing to stop **Sir Keir Starmer** standing in a leadership
Starmer to resign as prime minister, saying it would have been “dishonourable” to remain in post and that there should now be a contest for the Labour leadership. But Streeting, who is on the party
Labour mayor, Andy Burnham, intends to run on a promise to challenge Starmer for the party leadership
Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit More than 60 MPs have called on [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers
Labour’s time in office under [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) – and warned the party not to rush headlong into a new leadership
Starmer on Monday about his future. A Labour leadership election is triggered only if 20% of MPs – in this case 81 – nominate a specific candidate to stand against the leader. The party
Labour party MPs, including cabinet ministers, following the return of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to Westminster. Starmer will stay in post in Downing Street until any leadership
party](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/surge-support-greens-reform-across-england-five-key-takeaways) ahead of the next general election. While Starmer insisted on Friday that he would fight any leadership contest, conversations with ministers and time with his wife Victoria at Chequers over
Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party], as all the evidence suggests that a contest would be brutal, it would be unpleasant and it would be very unlikely the PM would win.” Did Burnham have a leadership
party’s former deputy leader, who was appointed by Starmer as his adviser on women and girls just a few weeks ago, said she wanted Starmer, Burnham and any other putative leadership contender to agree
party at these local elections … and it might precipitate a leadership challenge against him,” Tonge said. Members of Labour’s voter base have criticised Starmer
leadership contest seems likely over the summer, and a new leader and prime minister by the party conference in late September. That means that even if Starmer is on his way out, he will still
leadership speculation, and Starmer’s rock-bottom public approval ratings, the most likely scenario remains that he stumbles on. The quiet, loyal majority of the parliamentary [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party