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Foreign Office cuts will weaken oversight of international law, MPs warn

Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions this week by the independent MP for Dewsbury and Batley, Iqbal Mohamed. Starmer said the work would be undertaken by another team as part of a restructuring. However

The race to replace Starmer is on - but he still faces a momentous choice

questions. Does Wes have the numbers? And does Andy have a seat?" An ally of the prime minister tells me for several months those have been No 10's preoccupations. The answer to the first

How the contest is shaping up two weeks ahead of crucial Makerfield by-election

leadership contest, so if that is running, I would seek to join it. But I'd have to persuade members of the Parliamentary Labour Party to do the same." Clearly Burnham is desperate

Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers heavy election losses including historic Wales defeat

Starmer has insisted he will not quit as prime minister and "plunge the country into chaos", as Labour reels from significant election losses. The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure

Senior UK ministers deride Rachel Reeves’s reported plan of year-long rent freeze

questions over the chancellor’s future in government. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, asked the prime minister in the Commons on Wednesday: “This is not a serious way to run the economy … Will he listen

Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow

Keir Starmer does so while pleading with his party, in public and in private, to cut out all the chat about his future and who might replace him. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, is travelling

Labour MP in seat eyed by Burnham allies says she will not stand aside

Keir Starmer to stay in office. Marie Rimmer, the MP for St Helens South and Whiston, said the mayor of [Greater Manchester](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/greater-manchester) had not spoken to her “in years” – and that

At a glance: Starmer grapples with leadership crisis

Starmer is holding a crucial cabinet meeting as he fights to stay on as prime minister, less than two years after leading Labour to a landslide election win. It comes amid a revolt among Labour

Henry Zeffman: PM puts himself back in the game for now

Starmer said to the cabinet today, at the start of what was - let's remember - just its standard weekly scheduled meeting. The prime minister's message was spoken to a full meeting of 28 cabinet

Starmer insists 'majority' of Labour MPs back his leadership

Starmer insists 'majority' of Labour MPs back his leadership Sir Keir Stamer has insisted the "vast majority" of Labour MPs support him and want him to continue doing his job as prime minister

Labour must put policy first, politics second, Tony Blair says

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) and his would-be successors Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting, he urged Labour MPs to “force people to say where they stand” before getting behind a change in leader

Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism

Keir Starmer responded with their own essays to a highly critical intervention by Tony Blair, which said the party should reject workers’ rights reforms and net zero and allow far greater market freedoms. Mathew Lawrence

Analysis: Andy Burnham's route back to the Commons is clearer - but one big hurdle remains

Starmer used his authority and control over Labour's ruling National Executive Committee to block Burnham from standing. This time, Number 10 has indicated it will not seek to block him again. After a week

‘Starmer’s referendum’: How local elections could expose a fractured UK

Keir Starmer is facing a tough stress test. His Labour Party on Thursday will battle local and devolved elections under mounting political pressure. Voters across England, Wales and Scotland are expected to deliver Labour their

Chris Mason: Starmer defiant after defence spending row

Starmer talks to the broadcast political editors when we are on trips overseas to international summits. We take it in turns to sit down with him, and often have six or seven minutes each. Needless

European leaders urge Trump to host Zelenskyy-Putin talks

Keir Starmer; the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and Macron – realise talks with Russia in the short term may be unlikely, but hope Trump’s engagement could make them possible in the autumn

Watch: Reporter told to pose as gay for asylum claim

questions on the UK citizenship test. Politics](/news/videos/c89k2z8vy93o) [ ## UK must obey international law over Iran, says Thornberry The conflict in the Middle East could continue "for some time

Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on as prime minister despite [early results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/local-elections-2026-may-full-results-england-scotland-wales) in local elections that show his party suffering heavy losses, many at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Reform

Andy Burnham seeks advice from Sue Gray on forming future Labour government

Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, on how to manage a potential transition into Downing Street if he returns to Westminster and succeeds the prime minister. Gray is understood to have advised Burnham

How team Burnham finally cleared the first of many hurdles on route to Westminster

Keir Starmer’s cabinet](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-quits-cabinet-and-calls-on-starmer-to-resign), it set off a bombshell ; outwardly, things did not look hopeful. Streeting had not launched a leadership bid, and Burnham still ostensibly had no seat in Westminster from