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

Andy Burnham will attempt to return to the Commons as an MP, after Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary saying he had lost confidence in Sir Keir Starmer's leadership. Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor

Greens select nurse and ‘committed local campaigner’ as Makerfield byelection candidate

Andy Burnham is going to show up.” Kennedy said he was proud to be chosen. He said: “We want to defend our area against the politics of hate and division and bring people together around

‘There’s a risk of another Liz Truss moment’: City raises spectre of bond market meltdown again

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) faces a potential leadership challenge, the spectre of the bond market looms large. Amid febrile conditions in Westminster, the prospect of Britain switching prime ministers for a sixth time

Prospect of Labour leadership race brings out different sides of rivals

Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham), the party’s leftwing hope for prime minister, will have to demonstrate he can win over Reform UK voters on migration, and the bond markets on fiscal rules. And there

Celebrations and a swift exit after a Burnham win ‘beyond our wildest dreams’

Keir Starmer?” Hemmed in by cameras, chairs, tables and a whole load of the giggling supporters who had been assembled around him on the turf at Ashton Town FC’s grounds, Burnham picked

Labour leadership jostling puts Brexit back under political spotlight

challenge to replace Sir Keir Starmer. Within an hour Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake seized on Streeting's comment, saying "whilst Labour relitigate Brexit, Britain is not being governed". Hollinrake called the remarks "yet another

Mason: Starmer remains defiant as leadership challenge inches closer

Keir Starmer's survival strategy has notched up yet again, with further defiant talk aimed at raising the political barrier as high as possible for his potential challengers to clear. I have sat down with

Angela Rayner cleared by HMRC over tax affairs paving the way for potential leadership bid

Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. The former deputy prime minister has settled £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty after [initially paying the lower rate](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/angela-rayner-admits-underpaying-stamp-duty-on-800000-seaside-flat), but has not paid any penalty

Wes Streeting leaves No 10 after planned talks with Keir Starmer - UK politics live

Keir Starmer has another appointment in Downing Street, where he is meeting [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting), the health secretary who wants to replace him. Yesterday Starmer in effect challenged Streeting

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) faces the prospect of a leadership challenge, former Labour voters in a Birmingham constituency were last week feeling nervous about what could come next. A month ago, the group from

How Rayner, Streeting and Burnham weakened PM in 12 hours of political drama

Andy Burnham spent much of the day attempting to persuade MP Josh Simons, once a staunch ally of Sir Keir, to sacrifice his parliamentary career to help save Labour. Wes Streeting was in Parliament with

PM seeks to draw contrast with critics within his party and beyond

Keir Starmer has his back against the wall. He has had to deal with a spring of conflict, at home and abroad: America and Israel's war against Iran, which began

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

Keir Starmer’s premiership. After a fortnight that left [Starmer fighting for his political future](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/28/starmer-buys-some-time-mandelson-election) over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, the number of MPs backing Burnham is understood

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Keir Starmer, even though voters have given the party a “real kicking” at the ballot box and people feel “bitterly let down”, the education secretary, [Bridget Phillipson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/bridget-phillipson), has said. Phillipson said [Labour

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

challenge and Burnham be unable to return in time. Should Starmer decide to run against Streeting – and an alternative candidate from the left – the prime minister would have a major advantage because of Labour

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

Keir Starmer gives a speech in London in a bid to secure his premiership following devastating election losses for his Labour Party [Carl Court/Getty Images] ## Who could Starmer’s main challengers be? To trigger

How team Burnham finally cleared the first of many hurdles on route to Westminster

Keir Starmer’s cabinet](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-quits-cabinet-and-calls-on-starmer-to-resign), it set off a bombshell ; outwardly, things did not look hopeful. Streeting had not launched a leadership bid, and Burnham still ostensibly had no seat in Westminster from

Wes Streeting pledges 'wealth tax that works'

Starmer to stand down, fuelling intense speculation the former health secretary was planning a bid to replace him as party leader. Streeting did not mount an immediate challenge following his resignation, but has since said

Labour MPs say ‘endless drama’ of leadership speculation must stop

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer). Some backbenchers warned that repeated briefings about how and when the prime minister could be toppled were putting off voters, who similarly had disliked the Conservatives’ repeated shuffling of leaders

Starmer’s waning influence is apparent at awkward G7 summit

Keir Starmer’s first session of the G7 gathering in Évian-Les-Bains was undoubtedly awkward. A meeting about the future of Ukraine had been due to start at 9am but more than half