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Keir Starmer
43 days ago
After days of turmoil, Labour MPs believe the competing routes to replace their prime minister are becoming clear. It’ll take much longer than some hoped.
44 days ago
The Guardian view on a cabinet resignation: Labour’s leadership crisis is really an identity crisis | Editorial ○
The prospect of a contest exposes a deeper truth: the party’s problems go far beyond Keir Starmer
In politics, opportunities for supreme power are rare and fleeting. Yet rather than making challengers…
Wes walks, Starmer stays, but has Burnham got the momentum? - The Latest ○
Wes Streeting has quit his cabinet role as health secretary and called on Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister after days of speculation. But Streeting did not launch his own challenge to trigger…
Labour MP to stand down to allow Burnham run for byelection amid leadership row ⊕
Greater Manchester mayor would need to win byelection to launch leadership challenge against Starmer
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Andy Burnham now has a route back to parliament after a Greater …
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigns from government ⊖
In a statement, Streeting said that he no longer had 'confidence' in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership.
Chris Mason: Potential leadership challengers jostle for positions ⊖
Sir Keir Starmer and his backers argue a leadership contest would paralyse the government for months.
Labour is being destroyed by dithering: it should either do Brexit properly or rejoin the EU | Larry Elliott ⊖⊖
The UK has been suffering since going it alone, but Starmer’s noncommittal approach has made things worse. No wonder voters are angry
Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British poli…
Potential UK leadership contender Angela Rayner cleared in tax probe ⊕
The former deputy prime minister could now put herself forward in a contest to replace Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Angela Rayner cleared by HMRC over tax affairs paving the way for potential leadership bid ⊕
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Exclusive: former deputy prime minister says investigation ‘clipped my wings’ as she settles £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty
Angela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessnes…
Wes Streeting: the confident performer with a mixed record of reform ⊕
The health secretary’s ambition to succeed Keir Starmer is well known, but his time overseeing the NHS has proved trickier than expected