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Starmer given a lifeline after Streeting challenge fails to materialise

Andy Burnham, needs a parliamentary seat to challenge Keir Starmer. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images However

Starmer to say ‘incremental change won’t cut it’ in major make-or-break speech to avert leadership challenge – UK politics live

Andy Burnham as leader), and **Keir Starmer** delivers what you could see as a hustings speech this morning. Leaders can survive challenges

'We need to move quickly,' says Labour MP seeking to challenge PM

Starmer to stay there" she said but added: "For the sake of the country... Labour should change their leader." Health Secretary Wes Streeting, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham

Where does Starmer’s leadership stand – and who are his potential challengers?

challengers? As the May elections creep closer, the leadership speculation at Westminster grows more intense. Is [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) safe and, if so, for how long? When will Angela Rayner’s tax affairs

Andy Burnham sparks Labour anger with appearance alongside Greens

challengers to Keir Starmer, will be speaking at the [Change:Now event](https://www.compassonline.org.uk/events/changenow-mobilising-the-progressive-majority/) this month organised by the left-wing group Compass. Compass’s founder, Neal Lawson, has long campaigned for a cross

Tuesday briefing: Starmer’s ‘last chance’ speech and the possible challengers to his premiership

challenge to Keir Starmer’s leadership on Saturday, has changed course. Instead of an immediate change, she wants the prime minister to set a September timetable for his departure. “She wants a confidence vote

Analysis: Has Starmer done enough to save his premiership?

Andy Burnham. Starmer's answer after the speech on whether he would block Burnham from seeking to return to the Commons, as he did earlier this year, was ambiguous. That may bring clarity closer

Starmer’s failure to demonstrate strong values ‘driving away progressive voters’

Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner. Labour is braced for dismal results [in Thursday’s elections](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/07/local-elections-labour-test-greens-reform-lib-dems-tories-england-scotland-wales-polls), which could result in [Starmer facing a leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/05/labour-leadership-challenge-bond-markets-angela-rayner-andy-burnham-keir-starmer). The report from

Analysis: Many Labour MPs are blaming the boss for elections body blow

Starmer delivers tangible change ... he cannot lead us in to another election (locally or nationally)". Both these MPs are leading figures in the "soft left" Tribune group of MPs - and some of its members want

‘No other plan comes close’: Labour MPs turn to Burnham as pressure mounts on Starmer

Starmer’s judgment. “Before you broke that story, people were saying it would be difficult for Burnham to come back and that Keir would have until at least Christmas. But that [story] was the straw

Cabinet minister warns Labour against ‘doomscrolling’ through leaders like the Tories

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) after the May elections. MPs who fear Starmer cannot lead the party into the next general election because of his unpopularity are understood to have been discussing whether

Stop plotting to oust Keir Starmer, ex-deputy Labour leader urges MPs

Keir, as unfair as that is, and I do think it is massively unfair,” one said. There are nonetheless few expectations of a challenge soon after the elections, with expected challengers including [Andy Burnham

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

Starmer was hoping to save his job with a speech that sets out his vision for turning the country around on Monday, after a disastrous set of local election results in which the party lost

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) faced the prospect of a definite challenge from his MPs next week. Following grim results for [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) in elections on Thursday, former minister Catherine West said that

Another crunch moment for Starmer as he pleads with Labour MPs not to topple him

Keir Starmer to try to calm down a party that is hurting and anxious. Many Labour MPs have spent the weekend observing the politically scorched earth around them locally – their friends and colleagues in local

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

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers of his leadership rivals Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. MPs from across the party’s ranks said the prime

Wes Streeting faces narrow road to Labour members’ favour

Andy Burnham to succeed Starmer – against just 11% for Streeting. And whereas Burnham had a 44% favourability rating, only 18% felt the same towards the health secretary. That result put Streeting roughly

‘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

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