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Politics

Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says

challenger to Keir Starmer in any leadership contest, comes after Downing Street [said any response

The Guardian WorldJun 14
Politics

Starmer to say ‘incremental change won’t cut it’ in major make-or-break speech to avert leadership challenge – UK politics live

response to the Starmer speech. If she is not persuaded he can turn things around, she will formally start the process of trying to get the 81 names she needs to launch a leadership challenge

The Guardian WorldMay 11
Politics

Starmer tells cabinet he will not quit without leadership challenge

Keir Starmer has told his cabinet he will not resign as prime minister, saying the threshold for a leadership challenge has not been met. In comments that effectively dared the health secretary, Wes Streeting

The Guardian WorldMay 12
Politics

Starmer began the day damaged and then things got worse

Keir said in his speech that incremental change won’t cut it. But we’ve been in power almost two years. If he really understood the scale of response needed, he’d have talked about

The Guardian WorldMay 11
Politics

Keir Starmer vows to prove doubters wrong in make-or-break leadership speech

Keir Starmer has said he will prove his doubters wrong as he warned Labour was facing “very dangerous opponents” in a make-or-break speech, with leadership rivals on the brink of a challenge. Starmer

The Guardian WorldMay 11
Politics

Plaid Cymru tipped to be biggest party in Senedd, ending 100 years of Labour control

challenge, and think carefully about what the public has told us … The age of two party dominance is at an end and we will need to adjust to a world where multiple parties contend

The Guardian WorldMay 8
Politics

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

challenge Keir Starmer for the UK PM’s job? Meet the candidates ⁠Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to prove his doubters wrong ‌as he fights for his political future in the wake

Al Jazeera EnglishMay 11
Politics

Will Tony Blair's intervention change the Labour debate?

challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership - has also criticised Sir Tony for not mentioning the importance of inequality. [Speaking to the Observer](https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/andy-burnham-slams-tony-blair-for-ignoring-inequality-in-his-defence-of-radical-centre), Burnham said: "People don't think the centre

BBC NewsMay 27
Politics

Close Starmer ally declines to say if he will lead Labour into next election

Starmer said he would not resign and would prove his doubters wrong, and would fight any leadership challenge. “I take responsibility for not walking away, not plunging our country into chaos, as the Tories

The Guardian WorldMay 12
Politics

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

The Guardian WorldMay 11
Politics

Blair’s advice for Labour fails to engage with inequality, senior party figures say

leadership challenge if he wins next month’s Makerfield byelection, said the essay merited a “considered response” and he would set one out on Thursday. But he said Blair had failed to engage with

The Guardian WorldMay 27
Business

UK borrowing costs rise as Starmer speech fails to dispel investor ‘jitters’

Keir Starmer’s crucial speech failed to dispel investor “jitters” in the bond markets over political instability combined with fears of rising inflation. The yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year

The Guardian WorldMay 11
Business

UK borrowed bigger than forecast £24.3bn in April as inflation adds to benefits bill

leadership challenge, the figure was £3.4bn higher than forecast by City economists and the Office for Budget Responsibility. Rising borrowing costs on financial markets drove the UK’s debt interest payments

The Guardian WorldMay 22
Politics

Wes Streeting says Starmer ‘behind the curve’ on under-16s social media ban – UK politics live

Keir Starmer had been “behind the curve” on this issue.** While he was not overly criticial of the PM on this issue, suggesting that governments around the world have been slow to confront social media

The Guardian WorldMay 26
World

US-Iran peace talks abruptly cancelled amid renewed Israeli strikes in Lebanon | First Thing

leadership challenge to the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer. - **Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has [announced a new reparations manifesto](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/18/barbados-prime-minister-manifesto-slavery-reparations) from Caribbean leaders**, asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” over

The Guardian WorldJun 19
Politics

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

responsible, dignified, orderly” approach to what might follow. But several others have urged Starmer to fight on. Starmer was steadfast that he would fight any leadership challenge. “I think he is serious,” Kiran tells

The Guardian WorldMay 12
Politics

Healey quits as defence secretary in row over military spending

response, Sir Keir Starmer said the plan would deliver "an unprecedented increase in defence spending" in a "sustainable and fair" way, without relying on "irresponsible borrowing". The shock resignation of one of Sir Keir

BBC NewsJun 11
Politics

Labour expected to lose Senedd after century of winning elections in Wales

leadership. "Not an immediate departure but a planned, orderly and open transition and an open and transparent contest." Several Welsh Labour MPs have told BBC Wales that they were not expecting a challenge

BBC NewsMay 7
Politics

Starmer given a lifeline after Streeting challenge fails to materialise

Keir Starmer. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images However, the prime minister’s fragile authority has been further weakened by the resignation of four ministers – three of them close allies of Streeting – in what appeared

The Guardian WorldMay 12
Politics

Mandelson criticised Starmer’s lack of ‘verve’ and tendency to buckle under pressure

Keir Starmer’s lack of “verve” and tendency to buckle under pressure, suggesting the prime minister should behave in a more “Trumpian” fashion. The former US ambassador said Number 10 was “beleaguered and bereft

The Guardian WorldJun 1
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