Starmer set for showdown with leadership rival Wes Streeting
Embattled UK prime minister set for talks with one of the main contenders for his job after a day of drama at Westminster
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Streeting ally Zubir Ahmed fourth minister to resign amid calls for Keir Starmer’s exit
Ministers Jess Phillips and Miatta Fahnbulleh resign, while Starmer loyalists pledge their support
Starmer’s stubborn stand: Boris Johnson’s ghost looms large as Labour turn the screw
Besieged UK prime minister finds himself exactly where Tory leader was four years ago
Who could replace Keir Starmer as UK prime minister?
If a leadership battle gets under way, these Labour politicians may be the key runners and riders
Labour leadership: Wes Streeting faces narrow road to party members’ favour
Health secretary’s soft-right credentials put him at disadvantage even with reduced membership under Starmer
Andy Burnham seeks path to Westminster to launch Labour leadership challenge
Manchester mayor is a potential challenger to Keir Starmer, but he needs to become an MP first
Keir Starmer clings on as Labour ministers call on him to resign
Several cabinet members were understood to have called for him to set out a timetable for his departure as UK prime minister
Keir Starmer left to face the music as trickle of dissenters becomes a flood
With British king due in parliament on Wednesday, focus shifts to Wes Streeting as more Labour MPs call on UK prime minister to go
Review warns of ‘toxic’ culture in Troubles legacy investigation body
Urgent action needed to ‘grip the issues and address problem behaviours’, report says
If cabinet members start resigning, Keir Starmer is probably finished
Labour leader under pressure from within his ranks of MPs as he prepares fightback speech
Keir Starmer makes pitch to deepen EU-UK ties as he fights for his job
Labour leader and UK prime minister facing backbench revolt over elections disaster
UK elections: Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM, as former minister seeks to trigger leadership contest
UK elections: Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM, as former minister Catherine West seeks to trigger Labour leadership contest
Bond vigilantes eye Britain amid post-election turmoil
Markets fear the election result could topple Starmer heralding a shift to the left and an unravelling of fiscal approach
Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose – what has happened to leadership motivated by seriousness?
James McIntyre’s biography tends heavily to a depiction of Brown as having a sense of moral duty to lead, rather than to any ruthless ambition
UK elections: Labour suffers historic loss in Wales, Reform gains over 1,000 England seats
Prime minister Keir Starmer says he ‘won’t walk away’ despite damaging results across UK
UK elections: Labour’s status as a national party in Britain could be under threat
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK records rampant success as Keir Starmer’s nightmare deepens
Polls open across the UK in major test for Keir Starmer and Labour
Local, mayoral and parliamentary contests could upend political landscape as Reform, Greens and Lib Dems surge
A win for the Scottish National Party does not mean the UK is ‘cracking at the seams’
Getting Westminster’s agreement to a fresh independence referendum will not be easy
The Irish Times view on the UK elections: Starmer on the brink
The old duopoly is crumbling under pressure from populists and nationalists
Keir Starmer could make a bold move on Brexit to avoid being pushed out of office
Pressure on the UK prime minister is set to rise this week
‘Name one thing invented by the Irish that improved the world? Zero’ – Local elections heat up in London
Suburban ward of North Harrow shows old battles between Labour and Tories haven’t gone away, you know
Will Zack Polanski be more successful than Corbyn in tackling anti-Semitism?
UK Green Party leader is hoping to eat into Labour’s vote from the left in local elections this week
Kemi Badenoch apologises for Bloody Sunday clips in social media video
Conservative leader said post criticising Labour’s Troubles Bill was sent out by ‘young people’
Keir Starmer has drifted from one U-turn to the next
Two of the most impressive officials in the Brexit saga have been axed by their political bosses who live to fight another day
‘Drill every drop:’ Nigel Farage sets sights on Britain’s black gold capital facing ‘economic catastrophe’
The UK government is refusing more oil and gas drilling, while Reform UK turns attention to the ‘Dallas of Britain’
MPs fail to land knockout blow on bobbing Morgan McSweeney
Former chief of staff to Keir Starmer backs up old boss’s claims about appointment of Peter Mandelson to Washington post
Mandelson appointment was ‘serious error of judgment’, says Keir Starmer’s former adviser Morgan McSweeney
Cork-born former chief of staff quit UK government after taking ‘full responsibility’ for advising prime minister to appoint the former ambassador
Stalin with a nose ring or ecopopulist? Inside the dizzying rise of Zack Polanski
Under his leadership the Green Party in Britain is riding high in opinion polls and threatens to swamp Labour in London
Dear political parties. Now is really not the time to talk about deposing your leader
The threshold at which politicians seek to overthrow their leader should be much, much higher than this (I am looking at you too, Fianna Fáil)
Keir Starmer’s meandering Mandelson speech met with explosion of laughter
Labour benches sat in a miserable, stony silence, unclear if they still backed their prime minister
Mary Beard: ‘What are historians in the future going to find weird about us?’
Prolific broadcaster and writer is chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, and says her new book is for ‘people who haven’t really thought much about classics’
Nine Days in May by Jonathan Schneer and Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain by Geoff Andrews
Despite their defeat in two historic strikes, the British miners’ struggle raised huge questions for society
The British government has no business in banning Kanye West from the country
Free-speech absolutism is the only logical position in modern democracy. Yes, even when the speech is as base and bigoted as this
Starmer needs King Charles to deliver after US-UK Iran schism
British king travels to Washington at the end of this month on crucial state visit against backdrop of political tension
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