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Starmer? The former minister Catherine West's interview with Radio 4's PM programme immediately raised eyebrows around Westminster. Plenty of Labour MPs from across the party have told us they didn
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
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) will not survive as Labour leader for long enough to fight the next election. What they cannot agree on, however – even after a disastrous set of results in this week
Keir Starmer is likely to face a leadership challenge amid calls from parliamentarians for him to step down following the Labour Party’s stunning loss in local elections. Backbencher Labour MP Catherine West urged cabinet
Andy Burnham has announced an ambitious plan of his own – to win a parliamentary seat in the northern English town Ashton-in-Makerfield. According to his supporters, he is the best candidate to replace Starmer
Starmer over funding for the military. Al Carns resigned on Thursday evening, writing to Sir Keir to tell him the government's defence investment plan (DIP) was "neither transformative enough nor sufficiently funded". It came
Keir Starmer as prime minister. Some MPs and ministers arriving to campaign in the constituency over the past week are said to have sometimes been taken aback that there is little public-facing for them
Starmer's leadership. In a letter to the prime minister, he criticised Sir Keir's leadership as the reason for the party's dire election results a few days earlier, saying Labour needed a vision
Keir Starmer’s position](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/18/keir-starmer-not-setting-out-timetable-departure-david-lammy-andy-burnham-labour) as prime minister. Starmer’s most likely successor, the Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, has talked about bringing utility companies under public control, with his supporters advocating
Keir Starmer, whom Burnham has pledged to challenge if elected, but also the viability of the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party as a whole. The prime minister spent the weekend at Chequers considering his political
Andy Burnham – despite not being eligible – seen as [likely successors](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/22/four-top-labour-figures-could-beat-starmer-in-a-leadership-race-poll-finds). Some have argued Starmer should set out a timetable for his departure – and have suggested that a group of cabinet ministers might
Keir Starmer shakes hands with Harriet Harman outside No 10](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7814deefd0f07178b8329dd1ca91e98ce4c172a3/0_0_1920_1080/master/1920.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Harriet Harman was Labour’s deputy leader under Gordon Brown. Photograph: International Pool/PA With the bulk of the votes now counted from
challenge. One long-standing Labour MP has his take: "Keir Starmer is basically dead, isn't he? And because people think it is inevitable that he won't lead us into the next election, there
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
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), or his replacement, to increase paternity leave. More than 50 MPs, including the former deputy leader Angela Rayner and the former health secretary Wes Streeting, have worn England and Scotland
Keir Starmer hates to lose. Unsurprisingly, he refused to walk away and end his premiership as Labour’s local election losses began to trickle in on Friday morning. Upon entering Downing Street in July
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) has stuck for several weeks. “Although, that might depend on the size of the majority.” In the end, [Andy Burnham’s majority](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/19/andy-burnham-wins-makerfield-byelection-paving-way-labour-leadership-challenge) was so convincing that allies
Andy Burnham, the mayor or Greater Manchester. But those were the closing paragraphs of the former health secretary Wes Streeting’s resignation letter, a cadence so similar to Burnham’s own that it cannot
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
challenge to the leadership, but even Sir Keir Starmer's most loyal ministers are pushing him to change - and fast. The prime minister is nothing if not a determined man. But can he show