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UK. Reform leader Nigel Farage said the party looked forward to the contest and would "throw absolutely everything at it", with Reform having given Labour a drubbing at recent council elections in the area. Burnham
contest triggered – UK politics live From Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. > double quotation markHousing secretary **Steve Reed,** a close ally of **Keir Starmer,** has been on the media round
position. For now, Starmer remains in charge by default. For today’s First Edition, I spoke with the Guardian’s policy editor, ***Kiran Stacey,*** about the latest goings on behind the scenes in Westminster
election in 2024. Indeed, an opinion poll by Survation last week put Burnham only slightly ahead of Reform UK’s candidate, Robert Kenyon, with 43 percent and 40 percent, respectively. But that poll also found
UK politics live Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is trying to get Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to give MPs a vote on a proposal to get the Commons privileges committee to investigate allegations that Keir Starmer
contest. "My preferred option is for the cabinet to do a reshuffle within itself, where there's plenty of talent, and for Keir to be given a different role, which he might enjoy, perhaps
contest a formal challenge to replace Sir Keir Starmer. Within an hour Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake seized on Streeting's comment, saying "whilst Labour relitigate Brexit, Britain is not being governed". Hollinrake called
UK politics live Good morning. “Stories beat spreadsheets,” **Keir Starmer** declared in his speech yesterday. But yesterday was a day when the spreadsheets had the upper hand. Most news organisations were using them to keep
UK leader Nigel Farage said there had been "historic vote shifts" adding: "The old ideas of left and right have literally been blown apart in the last 24 hours." Tice said his party had faced
election results”, but that must not distract from “our primary focus on the country”. “I’m all up for having a debate inside the Labour party about how we improve our electoral performance
UK](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party) conference in 2024 and was mooted as a potential London mayoral candidate. But he appeared to to be cut loose by the party, which sought to distance itself from
position on the paper remotely.  People from green parties across Europe during
election. Streeting said: "It was clear that if we'd been plunged straight into a leadership contest by me or for that matter anyone else, I think it would have been seen as a deliberate
contests in Hackney and Lewisham. The party saw its first two members elected to the Welsh Parliament while the [Scottish Greens also won their first-ever constituencies](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78k79xm2mzo) at the Scottish Parliament. Polanski
contest as “tough”. Initial results painted a bleak picture for the prime minister, with Labour losing councillors in its traditional northern heartlands. Reform were the runaway winners in north-east England. There were 12 seats
election Labour's Andy Burnham is still dancing delicately in the language he is choosing to use about his ambitions, [but his remarks on the BBC's Question Time](https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002x87b/question-time-2026-04062026) were
contests in Scotland and Wales last week. Borrowing costs [fell on Friday](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/08/uk-borrowing-costs-fall-pound-rises-keir-starmer-bond-yields) as the results of the elections emerged with signs that Labour had not suffered as badly as first feared. Those
contests. An opinion poll of 2,005 British adults it commissioned alongside that study found that 20% of voters had used AI chatbots or search tools to get information about the parliamentary elections in [Scotland
contest." Several Welsh Labour MPs have told BBC Wales that they were not expecting a challenge to Sir Keir, despite the mood being described as "at rock bottom" by one frontbencher. A number of them
UK at general elections and in local elections such as the ones just held in England. An alternative is a system of proportional representation under which some attempt is made to distribute seats to reflect