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Reeves to promise free summer bus rides for children and food tariff cuts in living costs package

Andy Burnham hoping to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership if he can win next

Labour MPs urge Starmer to set targets to boost number of male teachers in England

Labour leadership campaign, in which the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, could challenge Starmer. “It feels

Will Tony Blair's intervention change the Labour debate?

Andy Burnham - who could soon challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership - has also

Lib Dems can deliver actual savings, Makerfield candidate says

Andy Burnham widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership if he is successful

Burnham: 'People in Britain can't afford a good life'

Andy Burnham**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq6pv7e66m2t#player) Burnham is widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership

Culture secretary says Streeting’s call for UK to rejoin EU is ‘odd’

Labour mayor, Andy Burnham, intends to run on a promise to challenge Starmer for the party leadership

PM insists he will not walk away as Burnham promises to change Labour

leadership is likely to be challenged by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, if he is successful in his bid to become Labour

Mail on Sunday attacks Restore as split right creates headache for UK papers

Andy Burnham is attempting to return to parliament and challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership

Tuesday briefing: With unease at home spreading, what next for Russia’s isolated leader?

challenge Keir Starmer. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian **Andy Burnham’s (third) bid for the Labour leadership

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

Angela Rayner says Starmer should ‘reflect on’ stepping aside after HMRC clears her over tax affairs - UK politics live

Andy Burnham to challenge Keir Starmer. “I’m not doing deals or anything like that,” she said. Good morning. Today it looks as though the phoney Labour leadership

Labour likely to win next election with Burnham as leader, say party members – UK politics live

Andy Burnham found a potential seat, meaning that, if Burnham can win the byelection, a leadership challenge has not been averted, just postponed. We don’t have any byelection polling from Makerfield yet. But last

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

leadership is under intense pressure after the Labour MP [Josh Simons announced he would stand aside](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/labour-mp-to-stand-down-to-allow-burnham-run-for-byelection-amid-leadership-row) to allow the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, to attempt to return to parliament and challenge

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

Andy Burnham, who is seeking to return to Westminster and is expected to challenge Sir Keir for the Labour leadership

Leadership rules should ‘not be tweaked’ to let Burnham run for PM, Labour NEC member says

Labour party leadership](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labourleadership) contests should “not be tweaked” to allow Andy Burnham to run, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee has said. With the [health secretary preparing to launch

Wes Streeting says Starmer ‘behind the curve’ on under-16s social media ban – UK politics live

Labour MPs names he needed to launch a leadership challenge and he said he was only holding back to allow [Andy Burnham

IMF urges UK to ‘stay the course’ on borrowing amid Starmer uncertainty

Labour leadership challenge could topple Starmer and lead to a successor increasing borrowing levels. Investors have highlighted comments by Andy Burnham

Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next

Andy Burnham to return as an MP to challenge him. The Greater Manchester mayor - who has made little secret of his leadership ambitions - was blocked from doing just that earlier this year by Labour

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

challenge. Allies of Streeting have [denied he will move against the prime minister](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/starmer-faces-perilous-24-hours-streeting-readying-leadership-bid) – and said he would only plan to stand if a leadership race was launched by another candidate. Andy Burnham

Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns

Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham), who is contesting the seat for Labour, has said he will challenge Starmer for the party leadership