The party needs a leader who understands the difficulties facing ordinary people. I am yet to see anyone obviously equal to that challengeIf this were a poker game, Thursday lunchtime was the point when players were finally...
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Read MoreRejoining the EU, massive tax reform, scrapping the pension triple lock – a new leader must summon a sense of emergency and deal with the big issuesLabour is in the deepest trouble. A juicy leadership drama ignites all...
Read MoreGreater Manchester mayor would need to win byelection to launch leadership challenge against Starmer• UK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham now has a route back to parliament after a Greater Manchester MP...
Read MoreThe key points in the health secretary’s long letter to Keir Starmer decodedUK politics live – latest updatesAs resignation letters go it is long – two pages and nearly 1,000 words – and relatively dense....
Read MoreStreeting calls on PM to resign and implies that he would stand as a candidate in a leadership contestAl Carns, the defence minister first elected in 2024, will launch his own leadership bid if a contest starts, Sky News is...
Read MoreStreeting, who is on the party’s right, had long been rumoured to be gathering support for tilt at leadership Wes Streeting has quit the cabinet as health secretary and called on Keir Starmer to resign.Streeting, who is on...
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The party needs a leader who understands the difficulties
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Greater Manchester mayor would need to win Makerfield seat
Andy Burnham has announced he will attempt to return
Announcing he would step down as MP, Labour’s Josh
We look at Wes Streeting, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner
Simons says: ‘I am standing aside so that Andy
Rejoining the EU, massive tax reform, scrapping the pension