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Cracks showing for Labour close to back yards of Starmer’s top team

Andy Burnham, the regional mayor, who is understood to have plans for a “radical rewiring” of the state as part of a Labour leadership bid

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

Labour MPs and allies of Streeting said they had nothing to do with her plan. However, backers of [Andy Burnham](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andyburnham), the mayor of Greater Manchester, have been trying to persuade West

Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount

Andy Burnham is also seen as a potential leadership rival, although a speedy contest would hamper his chances because he would first need to become an MP to stand as a candidate. Monday's address

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, who is not in parliament. The Guardian [reported on Saturday](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/09/mps-from-labours-left-to-urge-ed-miliband-to-consider-leadership-bid) that MPs from Labour’s left are expected to urge Miliband to consider a leadership

UK’s Keir Starmer faces likely challenge following Labour’s election defeat

bid to shore up support. A leadership contest requires the endorsement of 81 Labour MPs. Likely challengers to the leadership include Health Secretary Wes Streeting, former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Greater Manchester Mayor

UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

Andy Burnham and former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner – are not yet in positions to mount leadership bids, analysts say, and other potential rivals seem unwilling to move against him for now. On Thursday, Energy

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Labour figure put it: "Basically nobody beats Andy Burnham. So if you want anyone other than Andy you need this to happen sooner rather than later." Others are desperate for their colleagues to calm down

Andy Burnham to make bid to return to Commons as pressure mounts on Starmer

Andy Burnham will attempt to return to the Commons as an MP, after Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary saying he had lost confidence in Sir Keir Starmer's leadership. Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will, Labour MP tells cabinet

bid. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has the support of many MPs but any leadership contender must be a member of Parliament. Earlier this year he was blocked from standing as a candidate

Who could challenge Keir Starmer for the UK PM’s job? Meet the candidates

Andy Burnham, to parliament, suggesting she would back him in a leadership contest. Burnham is not an MP, having been blocked by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) from standing in a by-election

Most Labour members think Starmer cannot revive party fortunes, poll finds

Andy Burnham has a net favourability of 72%, suggesting he would be likely to win any leadership contest. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images More than a third of members polled said they were considering resigning their

Andy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’, allies say

Andy Burnham has a credible plan to return to Westminster “within weeks”, his allies have said, with the [Greater Manchester](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/greater-manchester) mayor expected to use a byelection fight

Pound heads for worst week in 18 months as Burnham lines up Labour bid

Labour bid The pound was heading for its worst week in 18 months on Friday as City traders anticipated that the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, [could face a challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/potential-labour-leadership-candidates-streeting-miliband-rayner-burnham) from

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

bid to end the impasse. It comes after a series of Labour backbenchers called on Saturday for Starmer to s[et a timetable for his departure](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/keir-starmer-under-pressure-to-agree-exit-plan-after-election-mauling) from Downing Street. The prime minister

Wes Streeting quits cabinet and calls on Starmer to resign

Labour leadership. But Streeting, who is on the party’s right, will not immediately launch a challenge and said he wanted to see a leadership contest with a broad range of candidates – a suggestion that

At a glance: Starmer grapples with leadership crisis

Andy Burnham also has support - but would need to become an MP to stand for leader, requiring a more drawn-out contest - The prime minister gave a hastily-convened speech on Monday in a bid

Starmer given a lifeline after Streeting challenge fails to materialise

leadership bid after Starmer issued a ‘put up or shut up’ ultimatum to his cabinet. Streeting was due to hold talks with Starmer on Wednesday, at which he was expected to talk candidly about

‘Is he getting rid of Starmer?’ Profile boost for Streeting in Ilford North seat

bid has been the subject of mockery from figures within Labour, while the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s slapdown of the now former health secretary in the Commons on Wednesday went viral on social media

Tax cuts and cost of living help proposed by Labour-linked groups allied to Streeting and Burnham

bid](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/12/wes-streeting-faces-narrow-road-to-labour-members-favour) for the leadership should Starmer’s government collapse. The report is also understood to have been shared with Burnham. The Tribune group has launched its own policy proposals

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

Labour, including self-deprecating ones from the man himself. So while his allies played down the prospect of a bid [as recently as the weekend](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/09/mps-from-labours-left-to-urge-ed-miliband-to-consider-leadership-bid), this was largely in the hope that