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Burnham’s momentum builds in Makerfield as byelection nears

Keir Starmer insists he will fight to stay in No 10, the walls seem to be crumbling around him, especially with Thursday’s resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey. Two hundred miles north, most

Starmer sees off inquiry call - but he doesn't escape unscathed

Starmer has escaped unscathed. Ultimately [he won the vote pretty comfortably](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21lx9ne83o) with a clear majority of MPs rejecting the idea that he should be referred to a parliamentary committee for investigation over

Chris Mason: Starmer defiant after defence spending row

Starmer talks to the broadcast political editors when we are on trips overseas to international summits. We take it in turns to sit down with him, and often have six or seven minutes each. Needless

Keir Starmer says it is unforgivable he was not told Mandelson failed vetting

Keir Starmer has said it was “unforgivable” that he was not told that [Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) had failed his security vetting before being appointed as ambassador to Washington. The prime minister said

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

Keir Starmer, are reportedly being asked to stand aside should the 56-year-old mayor win a by-election. However, just how far outside the establishment is Burnham, what is his background, and what might

PM's ex-chief of staff says he doesn't recognise claims about his behaviour

Starmer's chief of staff. Speaking at security conference in Ukraine, McSweeney said he found it "strange reading about a character with the same name as mine sometimes", as he spoke publicly for the first

Global wars, a depleted military and stubborn Labour MPs: Healey exposes Starmer’s perfect storm

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric has always suggested he understood the severity of the moment: just months ago in Munich, he pledged that Britain would “rise to this moment … spend more, deliver more, and coordinate more

How safe is Starmer’s premiership after his Mandelson vetting statement to MPs?

Keir Starmer’s No 10 have often urged the prime minister to be more forceful in his arguments, to prosecute his values, to find an enemy to define himself against. The prime minister has found

Labour has 'no coherent plan' for country, says Blair

Starmer's government of having no "coherent plan" for the country and introducing policies that have held back business. In a highly critical essay, the former Labour PM singled out measures including new workers' rights

King not meeting Epstein survivors, but state visit could help ease US-UK tensions

calls for the royal visitors to meet Epstein's victims, including from US Congressman Ro Khanna, Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips and the family of the late Virginia Giuffre. This will not be possible, according

Most Labour members think Starmer cannot revive party fortunes, poll finds

Keir Starmer’s party. Among members, the poll found Burnham has a net favourability of 72%, suggesting he would be likely to win any leadership contest that he was allowed to contest. Burnham cannot

Wales’s first minister calls on Keir Starmer to halt US-UK space defence project

Keir Starmer to suspend a big joint defence project with the US, saying that under [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) the country is “not the partner it once was”. In a statement on Wednesday, Labour

Starmer urges calm as far right seeks to exploit Henry Nowak murder

Keir Starmer condemned the Reform UK leader, saying Nowak’s family had explicitly asked that the case not be used to target particular communities. Starmer said in a TV interview at Downing Street: “Nigel Farage

Britain faces weeks of leadership limbo in slow-motion coup against Starmer

Keir Starmer meets school children at a breakfast club with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, in Ashton-under-Lyne, April 13, 2026. [Paul Ellis/Reuters] **The ‘King of the North’** Another reason for the curious slow

PM won't face inquiry over claims he misled MPs on Mandelson vetting

Starmer will not face a parliamentary investigation over claims he misled MPs about the process to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador. The House of Commons voted 335 to 223 against a Conservative-led motion

PM turns to old Labour hands after election losses but some MPs left baffled

Starmer has appointed former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a special envoy on global finance, as he attempts to shore up his position after his party suffered heavy election losses. Downing Street said

Keir Starmer makes late pitch to voters turning to Greens and Reform

Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister. In a message to voters on Thursday, Starmer said Reform’s Nigel Farage and the Greens’ [Zack Polanski](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/zack-polanski) were “not fit to meet this moment

Streeting warns against 'expensive' Labour leadership pledges

Starmer as prime minister, but neither have confirmed whether they would trigger such a contest. Streeting told the BBC he had the backing of the 81 Labour MPs he would need in order to launch

‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny

Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, [his second king’s speech](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/starmer-sets-out-changes-to-education-health-and-courts-in-kings-speech), in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation

Starmer loyalist warns against ‘copying Tories’ but admits PM is unpopular

Keir Starmer’s closest allies in the cabinet has conceded that the prime minister is “unpopular” but has insisted Labour should not repeat the same pattern of changing leaders that damaged the Conservatives. The housing