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Josh Simons stood down for Burnham as Labour was 'imploding'

Keir Starmer to set a timetable to quit his job following Labour's disastrous showing in the local elections last week and growing backbench discontentment with his leadership. On Thursday, Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigned

Burnham: 'People in Britain can't afford a good life'

resigned his seat to allow Burnham a chance to rejoin the Parliamentary party. - [**LIVE: Makerfield by-election interview with Labour's Andy Burnham**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq6pv7e66m2t#player) Burnham is widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer

UK will have to ‘dial back’ military plans without more funding, says chief of defence

Keir Starmer, would not increase defence spending beyond an already agreed 2.6% of GDP by 2027 to 3% by 2030. Starmer’s offer of 2.68% would have left the UK less safe, Healey said

Ed Miliband says he and Lammy feared Mandelson appointment could ‘blow up’

resigned, we would shuttle through prime ministers like nobody’s business. “Prime ministers make mistakes. I think on big judgments for this country, the biggest judgment of all, whether to join the war against Iran

Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants

resigned to run for the Labour party leadership](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-quits-cabinet-and-calls-on-starmer-to-resign) and the keys to No 10 Downing St, also look like a fairly smart tactical move in the domestic contest to succeed the embattled

Burnham says he would seek to enter any Labour leadership contest

Starmer has defied calls from some Labour MPs to step down after poor election results last month. No formal challenge has been launched against him. Sir Keir also said he would not "walk away" from

Starmer’s leadership under further pressure after defence ministers quit – UK politics live

Keir Starmer’s leadership was already in peril, with many in his party assuming that he will be replaced by Andy Burnham at some point later this year, but there was a consensus that

Labour’s Angela Rayner says she has been cleared over UK tax affairs

Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. Starmer, who led his Labour Party to victory in the 2024 general election, is fighting to save his job after disastrous local and regional polls last week. Four

Starmer rejects calls to quit as pressure mounts over Mandelson vetting

Keir Starmer says he is “absolutely furious” that he was not informed that Peter Mandelson failed his [security vetting](/news/2026/4/16/uks-starmer-under-fire-over-report-mandelson-failed-security-vetting) before being appointed UK envoy to Washington, as the United Kingdom prime minister faced renewed

Wes Streeting leaves No 10 after planned talks with Keir Starmer - UK politics live

Keir Starmer has another appointment in Downing Street, where he is meeting [Wes Streeting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting), the health secretary who wants to replace him. Yesterday Starmer in effect challenged Streeting

Burnham cleared to run for selection in pivotal by-election

Keir Starmer as prime minister. The prime minister is continuing to resist calls to stand down and set a timetable for his departure and is expected to fight any challenge from Burnham or other likely

Labour leadership jostling puts Brexit back under political spotlight

resigning from the cabinet, told an audience in London on Saturday that "leaving the European Union was a catastrophic mistake". At the Progress Conference, organised by the "Blairite" wing of the Labour Party, he announced

Tuesday briefing: How the UK’s military spending row exposes Starmer’s defence dilemma

Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, arriving in Geneva before the G7 meeting. Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street There isn’t a lot of agreement about what Starmer has got right in government

Tuesday briefing: Starmer’s ‘last chance’ speech and the possible challengers to his premiership

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) gave a speech which he hoped would draw a line under any potential moves within Labour to replace him, after the nation resoundingly punished his party at the ballot

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

Keir but they are at end of their tether.” On the idea of a timetable for Starmer to go, as promoted by some Burnham supporters, the source said: “You cannot say you are listening

Pressure on Starmer grows over Mandelson vetting despite ousting of Foreign Office official – UK politics live

Keir Starmer is facing “judgment day” according to senior government figures over the failure in Peter Mandelson’s vetting process. The prime minister has said that was “staggered” and “furious” to have not been told

Chris Mason: Dissent fizzes again at the top of the Labour Party

resignations, fury and anger a month ago following Labour's calamitous election results, the Makerfield by-election campaign had put a temporary cork in the bottle of the party's dissent. Or so we thought

‘Why are we even doing this?’ The week that left Britain’s PM looking like an interim leader

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), that Steve Reed ran out of patience. “There is no contest,” he interrupted. “‘Moves’ mean nothing. People need 81 nominations to stand against the prime minister.” The housing secretary

Starmer needs sharper survival strategy if he is to stay on

Keir Starmer faced a threat to his leadership, his core team [assembled in the cabinet room](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/how-the-downing-street-machine-ensured-starmer-survived-to-fight-another-day) and persuaded ministers to fire off a succession of supportive tweets in an attempt to keep

Friday briefing: Andy Burnham wins Makerfield byelection to set up possible leadership bid

Keir Starmer should agree to an “orderly and managed” handover of power. After a week in which Starmer doubled down on his vow to stay put as prime minister, despite more than 100 backbenchers having