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Starmer prepares for King's Speech as he faces leadership crisis

Starmer fights for his future in Downing Street. Labour's ongoing divisions mean the day of pomp and ceremony for the State Opening of Parliament will take place in unusual circumstances. The King's Speech

‘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

Falklands claim: Can Argentina’s Milei use Trump ties to challenge the UK?

2024 interview with the BBC, Milei criticised politicians who “beat their chests” about sovereignty without achieving results. However, in an interview with a streaming platform last week, he claimed that Argentina was “making progress like

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

results, with some backbenchers adding their voices to calls for the prime minister to go. But matters began moving at speed, with West, a north London MP who was sacked by Starmer as a Foreign

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers of his leadership rivals Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. MPs from across the party’s ranks said the prime

What did Keir Starmer say in ‘last chance’ speech to save his premiership?

Keir Starmer’s speech and press conference on Monday morning was almost universally billed as his final chance to save his premiership. Was it enough? And what – if anything – did he actually offer

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

US and Iran reach framework peace deal to end war | First Thing

elections**  JD Vance: ‘The way that I make decisions is that I try not to make them until I absolutely must.’ Photograph: Getty Images JD Vance

PM insists he will not walk away as Burnham promises to change Labour

Starmer has repeated his insistence that he will "not walk away" from the job of prime minister despite more than a week of turbulence in his party, which saw five of his ministers resign

Keir Starmer to step down as prime minister two years after historic election victory

Keir Starmer has announced he will stand down as prime minister after days of intense pressure from Labour MPs, including cabinet ministers, following the return of Andy Burnham to Westminster. Less than two years after

Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to deliver

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-resignation-letter-what-he-said-and-what-he-meant) at lunchtime on Thursday. The NHS’s target for reducing patients’ waits for planned hospital treatment in England? “Surpassed … the biggest monthly drop outside of Covid since

‘King of the North’: Who is Andy Burnham, a potential UK prime minister?

Keir Starmer, are reportedly being asked to stand aside should the 56-year-old mayor win a by-election. However, just how far outside the establishment is Burnham, what is his background, and what might

Olly Robbins is just the latest: a guide to the high-profile exits under Starmer’s tenure

Keir Starmer’s two-year tenure as prime minister. Here we take a look at some of the most high-profile resignations since Starmer came to power. ## Officials 1. --- ### Sue Gray Gray was the prime

‘An hour of abuse thrown at me’: Jeremy Corbyn on being the target of a Labour coup

Keir Starmer leaves Downing Street on 13 May with his wife, Victoria, whom he has described as ‘his rock’. Photograph: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It was on the evening of Saturday 25 June in 2016, a couple

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

Wednesday briefing: In a new era of far-right organising, how can we tackle hate?

resulted in ethnic minority families being burnt out of their homes. We also saw it in the race riots that followed the Southport killings in the summer of 2024, which were similarly fuelled by online

Burnham’s momentum builds in Makerfield as byelection nears

Keir Starmer insists he will fight to stay in No 10, the walls seem to be crumbling around him, especially with Thursday’s resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey. Two hundred miles north, most

Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’?

results in May, with elections taking place across Scotland, Wales and English councils that are likely to lead to gains for the Green party and Reform. In Birmingham, Labour’s 14-year dominance could also

Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/23/karl-turner-former-labour-mp-calls-starmer-face-commons-committee-mandelson-vetting), and the wider Labour party, and would be likely to amplify already loud calls for him to resign. Separatists in office in all three devolved nations for the first time

Thursday briefing: What would it take for streets to be safe for all?

Keir Starmer’s closest aides [are “war-gaming” how](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/10/keir-starmer-aides-war-gaming-over-leadership-contest-with-andy-burnham) to win a leadership contest ahead of Andy Burnham’s much-anticipated return to Westminster if he wins the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian