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

support for the anti-immigration party, Reform UK, led by Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage, has soared

‘Starmer’s referendum’: How local elections could expose a fractured UK

Nigel Farage, with his anti-immigrant rhetoric, has steered the far-right party Reform UK into an electoral force. While Reform began with Brexit, it now draws support

John Curtice: Early results show how fragmented UK politics has become

Nigel Farage's party has done best in places that voted heavily for Brexit in 2016. In wards where more than 60% voted for Leave in 2015, support

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

Brexit had done. He told a fringe event that he hoped in his lifetime to see the UK rejoin the EU. He has shown firm support to Nato, threatening to quit Jeremy Corbyn’s cabinet

'Britain at the heart of Europe': How Starmer's plans are going down in the EU

Brexit approaches to get the UK to benefit from closer EU relations, the UK has had to agree to "pay to play" as Brussels insiders like to put it. Participation in the EU's science

Polanski accuses Times of ‘scraping the barrel’ over his claim to be charity spokesperson – UK politics live

Nigel Farage, who also leads a dispruption party enjoying spectacular success, has scandals in his past too, and Polanski’s allies would argue that they are worse. Farage took a £5m donation from a political

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

party leader Zack Polanski, but reserved his sharpest rhetoric for Reform UK’s Nigel Farage. He described the Clacton MP as “not just a grifter, he is a chancer”, and said Farage had “fled

Liberal U.S. mayors team up with European counterparts to fight authoritarianism

Party](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5817491/uk-elections-keir-starmer-resign-reform-green) in local elections earlier this month. Schlapp said Farage, who was a major force behind the 2016 Brexit vote, showed how to mainstream blunt talk about immigration that many on Britain

Mapped: the elections that could deliver ‘unprecedented’ losses for Labour

Nigel Farage picked Sunderland in the north-east — a Brexit-backing area held by Labour since 1974. The council's current Labour leader, Michael Mordey, [recently told the Times he was](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/sunderland-council-may-local-elections-gbl7v3p7b) "absolutely

Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right

brexiter Michael Gove, as well as Orr, one of Nigel Farage’s chief advisers. Orr, a socially conservative Cambridge University academic, is a key figure in the broader network that has evolved during Orbán

Reform wins across northern England overturn decades of Labour control

Nigel Farage chose Sunderland for the launch of Reform UK’s local election campaign because, he said, it was where he had first sensed the “big political earthquake” underfoot. A decade ago next month

Andy Burnham vows to ‘change Labour’ in direct challenge to Keir Starmer

Nigel Farage’s party is expected to announce its candidate for the seat within days and on Monday released attack ads criticising Burnham’s frantic search for a byelection seat. But Starmer also suggested

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim

parties have a responsibility to challenge it head on and ensure any potential instances of foreign interference are investigated. “Given the seriousness of these claims, Nigel Farage needs to reassure the public that

Tuesday briefing: After an historic shift in power, where might Plaid Cymru go next?

Brexit, Covid. They could say their hands were tied. That line of defence is gone now. There is no one else to blame for their shortcomings, Bethan says. [Her piece on Sunday](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/17/it-was-always-the-way-to-vote-labour-here-partys-proud-welsh-heartland-makes-a-clean-break-of-it)

Reform UK support could plateau as it relies on socially conservative views, study finds

Nigel Farage’s party carried out as part of the British Social Attitudes report found that while Reform supporters were disproportionately more likely to be unhappy with politicians and public services, recent recruits had seemingly

Historic win for SNP but change and challenges ahead at Holyrood

Nigel Farage entering Downing Street – hardly an outlandish idea now after his party's gains across Great Britain – would push support for independence even higher. The issue may yet roar back on to the agenda

Starmer’s failure to demonstrate strong values ‘driving away progressive voters’

supporters might do better in this newly polarised age.” Examples given by the report’s authors include [Starmer’s decision not to join the Iran war](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/02/uk-will-not-join-offensive-strikes-against-iran-says-keir-starmer) – which was welcomed by voters

The small-town voters deciding the UK’s future are demanding change, our focus group found

supporters of right-wing parties and people who were undecided. But all expressed remarkably similar concerns about the cost of living, immigration, public safety and frustration about an increasingly unequal society. “These were

‘It is unsustainable’: Reform’s billionaire donors inspire panic in Westminster

Brexit party, Sainsbury’s £8m to the Lib Dems, and the health data tycoon [Frank Hester’s £20m to the Conservatives](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/11/frank-hester-computer-programmer-who-made-fortune-from-public-sector-contracts) before the last election. Harborne’s string of donations to [Reform

Future of UK lies in the EU after Brexit ‘failure’, say European Greens

Nigel Farage’s Reform party gains, while the Greens appeared to be struggling to convert increased votes into seats. The text on reversing [Brexit](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/eu-referendum) was part of a broader declaration by European