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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets school children at a breakfast club with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, in Ashton-under-Lyne, April 13, 2026. [Paul Ellis/Reuters] **The ‘King of the North’** Another reason
by-election is on a knife edge, not least thanks to Restore Britain, a relatively new party led by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe. In the few constituency opinion polls there have been, which
reason why lies 200 miles away in Westminster, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is on its knees. Starmer has had a miserable time [since winning a landslide](https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-boring-keir-starmer-joe-biden-united-kingdom-america-election/) general election
Britain had been "on the wrong path for 40 years". In a speech last week, he said "a vote for me will be a vote to change Labour". Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has already
reasons. It was understood on Thursday that Kennedy, a registered nurse and children's safeguarding specialist, wanted to focus on the caring responsibilities of his family. The by-election in the Greater Manchester constituency
reason for the party's dire election results a few days earlier, saying Labour needed a vision but instead "we have a vacuum". The 43-year-old also told MPs about the challenges faced
by-election Labour's Andy Burnham is still dancing delicately in the language he is choosing to use about his ambitions, [but his remarks on the BBC's Question Time](https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002x87b/question-time-2026-04062026) were