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Labour leadership contenders react?**  Catherine West has challenged Starmer’s leadership
Labour leadership contenders competed to promise even more spending, borrowing and fantasy economics." Yael Selfin
Labour MPs but any leadership contender must be a member of Parliament, so he would
leadership contest had not been triggered. So although no one has publicly said they want to take over yet, here are some potential contenders. Wes Streeting has been health secretary since Labour
leadership hopefuls, with contenders required to win the endorsement of 81 Labour MPs, a fifth
Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Conservative leadership contender Rory Stewart in November last
Labour leader and prime minister herself, but by triggering a leadership contest she would be aiming to flush out heavyweight contenders
Labour and the prime minister. MPs, councillors and ministers I've talked to are all frustrated by the speculation, with no little irritation towards the wannabe contenders in a leadership
Labour figures said Miliband, the energy secretary, who allies say saw himself as kingmaker rather than leadership contender
contend for power.” Morgan added that the vote in Wales had not been about Keir Starmer’s leadership, and she “took responsibility” for the people “rejecting Welsh Labour
Leadership contenders were circling. He faced an unlikely stalking horse in backbench MP Catherine West. At the London community centre where he was giving his speech to Labour
Labour to find a candidate to oppose him, with Ed Miliband and Rayner both possible contenders, while Andy Burnham is unable to run from outside parliament. Rayner suggested she could enter any leadership
leadership contest. Burnham is not an MP, having been blocked by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) from standing in a by-election in January. “What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs
leadership challenge from the Labour backbencher Catherine West would be “completely wrong”. West, a former minister, said she would begin collecting the 80 necessary names for a challenge on Monday. She is not widely considered
Labour party articulating, I think, now a commonly held view that this is unsustainable and unstable.” Ahmed’s intervention risked widening scrutiny around Streeting’s own positioning after days of speculation over whether he could
leadership on Monday if he does not set out a timetable to resign. She would need 80 supporters among Labour MPs and allies of Streeting said they had nothing to do with her plan. However
contenders for the job on a variety of factors. The Labour Party is in an unhappy state of suspended animation – unsure whether to stick with a troubled status quo, or unleash the potential chaos
leadership contender must be a member of Parliament. Earlier this year he was blocked from standing as a candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election and he would need to find another seat
contenders. The health secretary, who is considered to be on the Blairite right of the party, has been organising an attempt to oust the prime minister for days since Labour’s disastrous election results, despite
Labour’s Anas Sarwar [who did so in February](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/scottish-labour-leader-anas-sarwar-keir-starmer-to-stand-down). MPs hoping to see a change of leadership believe that regional mayors and council leaders – among them Greater Manchester’s [Andy Burnham