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Starmer's leadership. Badenoch said: "The Makerfield by-election was about one man's job. "The Aberdeen South by-election was about thousands of jobs all over the country but especially
Starmer to resign, with many of his own MPs calling for him to stand down and start a contest for a new Labour leader. The PM is digging in - and steadfastly refusing to give
leadership candidates](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/11/who-are-main-threats-keir-starmer-labour-leadership). In competing publications on Wednesday, two groups of Labour MPs set out their visions for what the party should be doing instead. The Labour Growth Group, whose chair, Chris Curtis
Starmer has warned his ministers and MPs a challenge against his leadership could "plunge us into chaos", after attempting to win them over with what he called a "radical" plan to change the country
Starmer tried to generate positivity around the waiting lists and economic news. But the messaging that Labour is already improving people’s lives is not strong enough. The prime minister’s seeming inability to tell
Starmer's grip on power but there is still no clear resolution to the leadership crisis affecting Labour. Andy Burnham is seeking to stand in a by-election triggered by the resignation of a Labour
Labour MP Sarah Champion said a leadership challenge was “absolutely the last thing that we want right now”, but said Starmer was deeply unpopular. She said: “I’ll be honest with you, people
Starmer for the Labour leadership. While Burnham is the favourite, Reform is his challenger and there is a realistic possibility that Restore’s splitting of the rightwing vote could be the difference. The approach
Party to do the same." Any challenger wanting to trigger a leadership contest must be an MP and have the backing of 81 Labour MPs. Streeting has confirmed he would enter any potential contest
Labour MPs, or 20 percent of the party in Parliament, to launch a challenge against Starmer. Any other contender would need the same numbers to join the race, while Starmer would automatically be allowed
leadership challenge, but he seemingly failed to get the necessary support from 80-plus Labour MPs. In his contribution to the king’s speech debate, Streeting had no direct criticism of Starmer, and praised
Labour party’s ban on him standing for Starmer’s party in the 2024 general election. But Starmer would be better to make himself seen and to make his case, Corbyn suggested. “There
leadership contest is now over.” Starmer, the man Burnham is seeking to unseat, posted a brief message of congratulations on Friday morning. “Congratulations, @AndyBurnhamGM, Labour’s new MP for Makerfield,” the prime minister wrote. “Voters
Labour, Reform and the rest have to offer. > > Under my leadership the Conservative party has changed. We know where we went wrong and we’re fixing it. > > The next Conservative government will deliver cheaper energy
Starmer era. With the Conservatives and the Labour government now reduced to the mid-to-high teens in the polls, the economy on its knees, and anti-establishment sentiment growing across the political spectrum
leadership debate will paralyse the government and cause chaos within the Labour Party. Can this argument shrink the potential support for Streeting or any other potential challengers? But the prime minister also knows that
party and the country of a protracted leadership contest, which will deliver a successor with a "very questionable mandate" as one friend put it. In other words, unlike Sir Keir, his successor on taking office
parties had increasingly adopted rhetoric once associated with the far right. “The Conservative leadership uses the same language as Nigel Farage, and the Labour right responds to that,” he said. “The people who have nothing
Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party, Streeting told Nick Robinson that the plan could raise up to £12bn a year. He used the example of a woman in Lancashire who paid a higher rate
Labour leadership contest should he beat Reform in the byelection next week, and return to Westminster, but has not ruled out challenging Starmer himself if it should come to it. So the prime minister