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Does UK’s new far-right party, Restore, pose a threat to Farage’s Reform?

Labour MP Josh Simons to make way for Manchester Mayor [Andy Burnham](/news/2026/5/19/king-of-the-north-who-is-andy-burnham-a-potential-uk-prime-minister) to contest the seat. If he is successful, Burnham will re-enter Westminster after an absence of nine years to stand

Wednesday briefing: Where Starmer stands after another precarious day in Parliament

Andy Burnham, is increasingly seen as a figure that all sides of the party can unite around. This, too, may buy Starmer more time as MPs try to find a way to get Burnham back

‘King of the North’: Who is Andy Burnham, a potential UK prime minister?

party to announce his resignation, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has announced an ambitious plan of his own – to win a parliamentary seat in the northern English town Ashton-in-Makerfield. According to his supporters

Keir Starmer aides ‘war gaming’ over leadership contest with Andy Burnham

Labour party turning inwards. “He thinks that if we lower the threshold at which we can depose PMs then we’re just like the Tories,” one said. Polling of party members has given his supporters

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit

Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. MPs from across the party’s ranks said the prime minister had failed to convince them he had what it took to lead the country into the next election

Changing visa rules for care workers is wrong, says Rayner

Andy Burnham - who is Labour's candidate in the Makerfield by-election - said he understood where Rayner was "coming from" and that the party

John Healey says Labour infighting puts government’s credibility at risk

party had turned in on itself since the May elections in what appeared to be direct criticism of Andy Burnham, [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting) and even the junior defence minister Al Carns. Arguing that

‘It’s Andy or bust’: could Burnham’s return to parliament save Starmer?

Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham) return to parliament in order to succeed him before the next general election. Burnham had a busy day on Thursday, [in the week that Starmer was at war with Whitehall

Who could challenge Keir Starmer for the UK PM’s job? Meet the candidates

Andy Burnham, to parliament, suggesting she would back him in a leadership contest. Burnham is not an MP, having been blocked by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) from standing in a by-election

Wes Streeting pledges 'wealth tax that works'

party's rules. He said he had decided against that a few days before he resigned, after he had learned Greater Manchester Mayor and potential Labour leadership rival Andy Burnham

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Andy Burnham’s campaign message of “Change Labour. Keep The Faith” is cutting through with voters. Plus how have the Conservative, Lib Dem and Green party

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

Andy Burnham" as a candidate. He added: "If [Burnham] manages to win this, he will certainly be demonstrating his ability to win constituencies you would expect most Labour politicians to lose at the moment." Outgoing

‘An hour of abuse thrown at me’: Jeremy Corbyn on being the target of a Labour coup

Labour party’s ban on him standing for Starmer’s party in the 2024 general election. But Starmer would be better to make himself seen and to make his case, Corbyn suggested. “There

Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants

Labour party leadership](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-quits-cabinet-and-calls-on-starmer-to-resign) and the keys to No 10 Downing St, also look like a fairly smart tactical move in the domestic contest to succeed the embattled Keir Starmer. As [Anand Menon

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

Labour into the next election, however, and the party has never successfully removed an incumbent prime minister in its 125-year history. The prime minister is helped by the fact that two frontrunners to succeed

A grim week for Starmer – but things could be about to get worse

Labour folk ponder how long he should have left. But there is another fundamental too. The party cannot agree who it would like to replace him and plenty of the leading candidates have tricky things

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

party can thrash out its differences. But nor can it be said enough that [Andy Burnham might not be successful in his bid to become an MP again](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv26e7yd89o). Reform will throw everything

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Labour leader is much more difficult than replacing a Conservative one. Tory party rules mean MPs can express their lack of confidence in a prime minister anonymously, and do not have to rally around

Facing a seismic by-election, the people of Makerfield tell us what matters to them

Andy Burnham, has said that if elected, he would seek to enter any Labour leadership contest to replace Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street. First, Burnham must defeat his main rival in Makerfield, local plumber

Stop the anonymous briefings and show respect, two ministers tell Labour MPs

Andy Burnham. Cooper began by saying she had spent the weekend meeting former Labour councillors in her West Yorkshire constituency who had lost their seats on 7 May “to say sorry to them that they