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Burnham team tell ministers to delay resignations to avoid chaos

announce any challenge in the immediate aftermath of the result. However, some ministers are “trigger happy” and have already proactively offered to quit, Burnham allies revealed, suggesting that several below cabinet level could resign over

Defence secretary questioned by MPs over timing of Healey quitting and tanker seizure

Monday. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images It was captured 25 miles south of the Isle of Wight in the small hours of Sunday, when marine commandos roped down on to the deck of the 244-metre

Foreign secretary concerned ministers not told of Mandelson vetting fears sooner

Starmer is facing calls to resign from opposition parties and is due to answer questions on the scandal in Parliament on Monday. The Foreign Office's top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked

'Staggering' I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM

Starmer has said it's "staggering" that he, as prime minister, was not told about Lord Peter Mandelson failing to pass initial security vetting checks. The prime minister is facing calls to resign over

Streeting says he is 'full of rebellious hope' as he delivers resignation speech

Starmer's leadership. In a letter to the prime minister, he criticised Sir Keir's leadership as the reason for the party's dire election results a few days earlier, saying Labour needed a vision

Keir Starmer expected to announce departure as prime minister on Monday

announce on Monday that he will step down as prime minister, after overwhelming pressure from Labour MPs to make way for [Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham) to become Labour leader. The prime minister

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

Starmer's premiership has never looked more vulnerable as growing numbers of his own MPs call on him to stand down after a disastrous set of election results. The prime minister has vowed to fight

Labour's Andy Burnham wins a special election, setting up a showdown with Starmer to lead Britain

announced early Friday cements the status of Burnham, a 56-year-old politician nicknamed the King of the North, as the top contender to replace Starmer as leader of the Labour Party and the country

Armed forces minister quits after Healey exit as defence funding row deepens

Starmer over funding for the military. Al Carns resigned on Thursday evening, writing to Sir Keir to tell him the government's defence investment plan (DIP) was "neither transformative enough nor sufficiently funded". It came

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

Cabinet split as Mahmood calls on Starmer to set out timetable to go

Starmer to set out a timetable for his resignation, leading to splits at the top of government. It is understood Mahmood is in the minority in the cabinet over whether Sir Keir should

SCOTUS upholds abortion pill telehealth access. And, Trump returns from China visit

announcement of the deal, he didn't sound completely solid, NPR's Tamara Keith tells *Up First*. China has made purchase promises before only for them to fall short. A year ago, a destructive trade

Digested week: King bites his tongue as a president indulges his fantasies | John Crace

Monday We don’t often get to see senior civil servants out and about in the wild. They are kept away from the public gaze, sat behind a desk trying to persuade their ministers