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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, the prime minister’s fragile authority has been further weakened by the resignation of four ministers – three of them close

Labour’s disastrous night puts focus on Keir Starmer’s future as leader

byelection for the city’s Westminster seat, prompting Starmer to [consider resigning](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/17/keir-starmer-reportedly-wanted-to-quit-after-2021-byelection-defeat) as opposition leader. On Thursday night, Starmer’s party suffered a similarly damaging blow, losing every single council seat

Makerfield byelection is about more than Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham). Of the Labour MPs who were back on the constituency’s doorsteps in Hindley Green and Winstanley, just after an intensive local election campaign, many said the fight feels existential

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

byelection](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/andy-burnham-blocked-from-byelection-race-by-labour-ruling-committee), told the Guardian there was no route for the mayor through that committee. Some allies of Burnham are believed to have been attempting to convince union general secretaries to change their