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Labour must offer more than ‘better managed decline’ on economy, MPs urge

Keir Starmer [fighting to ward off a leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/12/keir-starmer-prime-minister-resignation-labour-leadership-cabinet-meeting-yvette-cooper-shabana-mahmood-andy-burnham-wes-streeting-uk-politics-latest-news-updates), the leading backbenchers from the soft-left [Tribune](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/06/labour-mps-revive-tribune-to-take-on-reform) group published a series of essays calling for bolder action to salvage

Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election

Starmer as prime minister. The prime minister is continuing to resist calls to stand down and set a timetable for his departure and is expected to fight any challenge from Burnham or other likely contenders

Pound heads for worst week in 18 months as Burnham lines up Labour bid

Keir Starmer, [could face a challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/potential-labour-leadership-candidates-streeting-miliband-rayner-burnham) from the Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, later this year. After days of uncertainty over Starmer’s future, sterling dropped by almost three cents, or 2%, during

Starmer to face split cabinet as demands for his resignation mount

Keir Starmer is set to face his cabinet as more than 80 Labour MPs have called for him to resign, following the party’s devastating local elections losses last week. The cabinet is said

Close Starmer ally declines to say if he will lead Labour into next election

Keir Starmer’s closest aides has declined to say whether he would lead his party into the next election amid mounting calls for him to resign. The prime minister is “listening to colleagues

Who is Zack Polanski, UK Greens leader and rising political star?

Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party](/news/2026/5/5/starmers-referendum-how-local-elections-could-expose-a-fractured-uk), is banking on a political breakthrough in British local elections this week. More than 5,000 council seats will be up for grabs on Thursday as voters

Henry Zeffman: What does Keir Starmer do next after Andy Burnham's Makerfield win?

Starmer they're talking about: the man who not even two years ago brought Labour back to the promised land of government after 14 years away, and only five years after Labour's worst ever

Starmer considers political future as pressure to quit mounts

Starmer is weighing up his political future as pressure grows on him to announce his resignation. It comes as cabinet ally Peter Kyle said the prime minister was considering "political realities" after Andy Burnham

Is it harder than ever to be prime minister?

Labour if it removes Sir Keir Starmer, an incumbent premier with a bigger parliamentary majority than his transformative predecessor Clement Attlee won in 1945. What is driving this narrative? Why is the UK churning through

UK borrowing costs hit highest for 18 years as uncertainty over PM continues

Starmer. The effective interest rate on borrowing over 10 years briefly hit 5.13%, near levels last seen during the 2008 global financial crisis. Financial markets have been on edge due to fears higher oil prices

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

Labour, including self-deprecating ones from the man himself. So while his allies played down the prospect of a bid [as recently as the weekend](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/09/mps-from-labours-left-to-urge-ed-miliband-to-consider-leadership-bid), this was largely in the hope that

Celebrations and a swift exit after a Burnham win ‘beyond our wildest dreams’

Keir Starmer?” Hemmed in by cameras, chairs, tables and a whole load of the giggling supporters who had been assembled around him on the turf at Ashton Town FC’s grounds, Burnham picked

‘It’s Andy or bust’: could Burnham’s return to parliament save Starmer?

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) is looking for a saviour to keep him in No 10 after the May elections and the scandal of the Mandelson saga, there is an unlikely figure in the north

Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

Keir Starmer a good prime minister, I ask Welsh First Minister Morgan? There's a tiny, but telling pause, before her more diplomatic than enthusiastic answer. "He's helped us in Wales." She then talks

Keir Starmer says he wants to offer Burnham ‘big role’ in government to avoid leadership contest – UK politics live

Keir Starmer** is still in France for the G7 summit but – as Margaret Thatcher discovered on a trip to Paris in November 1990 – acting as a statesman on the world stage does not protect

Greens ‘have welcomed’ people expelled by Labour for antisemitism, Steve Reed claims

leadership. Reed said: “Some of the worst antisemites that we kicked out of the Labour party not only joined the Green party, but are now standing for the Green party. And Zack Polanski has been

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

Keir Starmer remains the most resilient person I know in my life. I spoke to him twice yesterday. He has a strength of character, a fighting experience. There will be no timetables. “What there

Reeves makes case to remain as chancellor with reports Burnham may favour Miliband

Keir Starmer is replaced later this year, saying she is the only candidate who can safeguard the country’s finances. The backbench lobbying push comes amid a broader tussle among [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour)

Labour MPs say ‘endless drama’ of leadership speculation must stop

leadership speculation, as Downing Street begins a fightback against predictions of an imminent challenge to [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer). Some backbenchers warned that repeated briefings about how and when the prime minister could

A political nerd’s guide to Britain’s by-election

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is on its knees. Starmer has had a miserable time [since winning a landslide](https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-boring-keir-starmer-joe-biden-united-kingdom-america-election/) general election two years ago. He is historically unpopular, and Labour has collapsed