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Keir Starmer vows to prove doubters wrong in make-or-break leadership speech

Labour was facing “very dangerous opponents” in a make-or-break speech, with leadership rivals on the brink of a challenge. Starmer said he would fight [any leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/11/who-are-main-threats-keir-starmer-labour-leadership) and would

Burnham to launch byelection campaign as Green candidate quits after just nine hours – UK politics live

Starmer said. Meanwhile, Kennedy, the Green’s candidate for the byelection, withdrew from the ballot nine hours after being announced, with the party citing “personal and family reasons”. The [Times](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/green-party-makerfield-golders-green-jewish-ambulances-arson-attack-s2szgdvwp) reported

Legislation proposed to stop ‘lawfare’ targeting journalists and whistleblowers

party support. Labour ministers are understood to be supportive of the bills after frustration in the Ministry of Justice that similar measures did not [form part of the king’s speech](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/13/starmer-sets-out-changes-to-education-health-and-courts-in-kings-speech). However

Signs grow that Starmer will set out timetable to resign as mood in government shifts

Labour MPs despairing about how they take the fight to Nigel Farage's party, they now have a leadership contender who can argue he has a track record of doing exactly that. Dozens

Wes Streeting prepares to launch leadership challenge against Keir Starmer

leadership challenge against Keir Starmer on Thursday if the health secretary can secure the support of enough MPs to trigger a contest. Streeting’s move to force a race has sparked a frantic scramble

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

Labour ranks many MPs are sanguine, reflecting frustration at a tight approach to tax and spending under Starmer, despite the party’s plunging poll ratings and [dire showing in elections across Britain last week

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Starmer? The former minister Catherine West's interview with Radio 4's PM programme immediately raised eyebrows around Westminster. Plenty of Labour MPs from across the party have told us they didn

Streeting warns against 'expensive' Labour leadership pledges

Labour leadership contest must not become a race of who can offer "the most expensive and popular pledges to the party faithful at the expense of the British people", Wes Streeting has said. The former

Watch: Reporter told to pose as gay for asylum claim

party who can fix Britain. Politics](/news/videos/c5y2k71jqlro) [ ## PMQs: Starmer dismisses 'caretaker PM' label as Badenoch

Andy Burnham’s change in tack on fiscal rules and bond markets is understandable

Starmer and the chancellor, [Rachel Reeves](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves), given their apparent readiness to burn political goodwill to balance the books. Of course the bond market has no vote in the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour)

Starmer’s future hangs in balance after Burnham’s Makerfield election win

Starmer’s future hangs in balance after Burnham’s Makerfield election win **Ashton-in-Makerfield, United Kingdom –** Sue Hailwood has felt exhausted since [May,](/news/2026/5/28/the-kingmakers-of-makerfield-english-town-braces-for-crucial-by-election) when the date of a critical by-election

Starmer is not setting out timetable for his departure, says David Lammy

Starmer, Wes Streeting, [resigned as health secretary](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-quits-cabinet-and-calls-on-starmer-to-resign) after seemingly failing to gather enough support from MPs to make a direct leadership bid. “I’m not going to sugarcoat this, I thought that

Political turmoil: UK will see its seventh prime minister in 10 years

party, kick-starting the race for the seventh prime minister of the United Kingdom in 10 years. In an emotional address on Monday, Starmer said he would remain in office until a new Labour leader

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

party as a member four months ago and intended to campaign for her local council candidate. Formby, a former political director of the Unite union, took over as Labour’s general secretary in 2018, having

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

leadership contenders – Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner – are said to be unwilling to be the first to challenge Starmer. Starmer is said to be weighing up setting out the next step in the government

Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount

leadership threats mount Sir Keir Starmer is to promise bolder action to tackle "big challenges" facing the country, as he battles to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader. The prime minister

Streeting says he would join leadership race as Burnham vows to 'save' Labour

Starmer as leader should he be selected as the party's candidate in the by-election and win - said the vote must be a moment to "reclaim the Labour party, to save it from where

Andy Burnham will push to become PM before Labour conference, allies say

party conference in Liverpool, his supporters have said. The Greater Manchester mayor cleared his first hurdle to becoming the candidate in the Makerfield byelection on Friday as Labour’s ruling body [gave him permission

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

Starmer's leadership. Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor, said he would seek permission to run for Labour in Makerfield after Labour MP Josh Simons said he would resign to make way for him. It came

Personal decision for Starmer on whether to fight leadership contest, minister says

Starmer, the problem is the Labour Party." Earlier in the week, Sir Keir defied calls to step down, after nearly 90 of his own MPs urged him to go and five ministers resigned. Among them