World news | The Guardian15h ago
Business secretary attacks ‘entitlement’ of Starmer leadership rivals https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/04/business-secretary-attacks-entitlement-of-starmer-leadership-rivals #Labour #PeterKyle #LabourPartyLeadership #Conservatives #Politics #AndyBurnham #WesStreeting #UkNews
Business secretary attacks ‘entitlement’ of Starmer leadership rivals

Peter Kyle says British politics fails to reward political accomplishment and Labour risks aping Tory instability

The Guardian
World news | The Guardian16h ago
On the byelection campaign trail with Andy Burnham – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2026/jun/04/on-the-byelection-campaign-trail-with-andy-burnham-podcast #Politics #AndyBurnham #Labour #MakerfieldByelection #UkNews #GreaterManchester #England #Byelections #LabourPartyLeadership #LocalPolitics #LocalGovernment #Society
On the byelection campaign trail with Andy Burnham – podcast

Pippa Crerar joins Andy Burnham on the campaign trail in Makerfield

The Guardian
World news | The Guardian2d ago
Minister condemns riot but urges review of police anti-racism guidance following Henry Nowak death – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jun/03/henry-nowak-southampton-riot-labour-keir-starmer-police-uk-politics-latest-news #Politics #UkNews #KeirStarmer #Pmqs #Labour #Police #Race #Conservatives #KemiBadenoch #NigelFarage #ReformUk #RupertLowe #KnifeCrime #Crime #LabourPartyLeadership
Starmer faces PMQs as police say 11 officers injured in disorder over Henry Nowak murder – UK politics live

PM faces questions from opposition leader Kemi Badenoch and other MPs

the Guardian
World news | The Guardian2d ago
Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/02/labour-mathew-lawrence-mark-mcvitie-competing-manifestos-join-forces #Labour #Politics #LabourPartyLeadership #AndyBurnham #WesStreeting #UkNews
Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism

Mathew Lawrence and Mark McVitie, previously seen as favouring Burnham and Streeting respectively, say change of direction is needed

The Guardian
World news | The Guardian3d ago
Tories accuse Starmer of not revealing all his Mandelson messages – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jun/02/peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-labour-leadership-snp-peter-murrell-latest-news-updates #Politics #UkNews #Labour #PeterMandelson #LabourPartyLeadership #KeirStarmer #ScottishNationalPartySnp
Tories accuse Starmer of not revealing all his Mandelson messages – UK politics live

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart says it ‘beggars belief’ there were not more exchanges between Mandelson and the PM

the Guardian
Opinion | The Guardian US3d ago
British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future | Polly Toynbee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/02/british-politics-ideas-for-the-future-labour-policy-tony-blair #TonyBlair #LabourPartyLeadership #AndyBurnham #WesStreeting #Labour #Politics #UkNews #TaxAndSpending #Nhs #Brexit #ZackPolanski #NigelFarage #KemiBadenoch #ForeignPolicy
British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future

Finally, Labour is talking policy, thanks to the leadership contest and Tony Blair’s intervention – and the centre-right is making a much-needed fightback too, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian
World news | The Guardian4d ago
Mandelson private messages to be released today – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jun/01/peter-mandelson-documents-published-keir-starmer-labour-latest-news-updates #Politics #UkNews #PeterMandelson #KeirStarmer #Labour #LabourPartyLeadership #Conservatives
Mandelson private messages to be released today – UK politics live

Sources predict ‘toe-curling’ revelations as more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to his appointment as US ambassador to be published

the Guardian
World news | The GuardianMay 29
Minister insists Labour will not apply national living wage to all over-18s before election – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/29/labour-welfare-youth-unemployment-living-wage-milburn-starmer-burnham-blair-latest-news-updates #Politics #UkNews #AndyBurnham #Labour #LabourPartyLeadership #KeirStarmer #MakerfieldByelection
Minister insists Labour will not apply national living wage to all over-18s before election – UK politics live

Torsten Bell says Labour manifesto ‘did not set out the timeline’ for changes to living wage after scale of youth unemployment crisis revealed in Milburn report

the Guardian
World news | The GuardianMay 28
Keir Starmer defends policy choices in rebuttal of Blair’s criticism https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/28/keir-starmer-defends-policies-tony-blair-criticism-labour #Labour #KeirStarmer #TonyBlair #AndyBurnham #LabourPartyLeadership #Politics #UkNews
Keir Starmer defends policy choices in rebuttal of Blair’s criticism

PM says predecessor misunderstands government’s successes and ‘very different’ situation compared with 1997

The Guardian
World news | The GuardianMay 28
Burnham steps back from past calls to end immigration benefits restriction https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/28/andy-burnham-immigration-benefits-policy-makerfield-labour #AndyBurnham #ImmigrationAndAsylum #Labour #MakerfieldByelection #Byelections #LabourPartyLeadership #GreaterManchester #LocalPolitics #Politics #England #UkNews
Burnham steps back from past calls to end immigration benefits restriction

Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate understood to have changed stance on no recourse to public funds policy

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