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The Latest Breaking News on UK Politics

Starmer vows to prove doubters wrong as he tries to ward off leadership challenge

PM makes series of policy pledges including seeking new deal with EU and says he will fight any challenge

The Guardian - UK · May 11

Starmer faces fight to survive as Streeting and Rayner eye leadership bids

Chances of Starmer remaining in No 10 appear to be diminishing as about 40 Labour MPs call on him to quit

The Guardian - UK · May 11

2026 elections mapped: how Labour lost ground in different directions

Keir Starmer’s party has lost out to Reform and the Greens, with no respite in Scotland, Wales or England

The Guardian - UK · May 11

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Who are the main threats to Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership?

PM is determined to fight on in No 10 but various contenders to replace him have been organising for some time

The Guardian - UK · May 11

Wales has been hit by a political earthquake – and the UK government is in a very tricky position

If Starmer’s Labour refuses to concede more powers to Plaid Cymru, the triumphant independence party, it will only accelerate its own decline, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

The Guardian - UK · May 11

Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains

Many members of minority communities fear results in Birmingham and elsewhere could lead to rise in hostile rhetoric

The Guardian - UK · May 11

The Tories are still on life support – so why is Badenoch in celebratory mood?

Party leader has been vocal about its gains in London and there is a feeling that its losses could have been worse

The Guardian - UK · May 10

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Plaid Cymru leader plans minority Welsh government built on cooperation

Rhun ap Iorwerth says he hopes to work with other parties and press the UK government for extra powers

The Guardian - UK · May 10

The Guardian view on the Welsh and Scottish elections: Plaid’s triumph heralds a new era in devolved politics

Editorial: Progressive nationalist parties now hold power in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. That will be a challenge for the United Kingdom’s overcentralised state

The Guardian - UK · May 10

Give Starmer the chance to carry out his promises

Letters: Readers assess the prime minister’s position in the wake of Labour’s losses in local elections

The Guardian - UK · May 10

PM must resign to save Britain’s future

Brief letters: Keir Starmer’s banal platitudes | Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman | Tacking backwards | Crap council

The Guardian - UK · May 10

Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor

There are many good reasons to not like the prime minister. But ours is an age in which hatred is a remarkably popular currency – leaders need a strategy for countering it, says author Samuel Earle

The Guardian - UK · May 10

What’s behind surge in support for Reform and Greens across England? Five key takeaways

Significant gains this week lay bare an increasingly fragmented political system

The Guardian - UK · May 10

Don’t let Farage and Reform divide us, Labour’s Sarwar urges Holyrood leaders

Scottish Labour leader says he aims to hold SNP to account after his party tied for second with Reform in elections

The Guardian - UK · May 10

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As leader of the UK’s largest union, I want Labour to succeed – but that means radical change

If this isn’t to be the last ever Labour government, the party is going to need to reconnect with the labour movement, says Andrea Egan, general secretary of Unison

The Guardian - UK · May 10

Plaid Cymru leader says he hopes to be made first minister as early as Tuesday

Rhun ap Iowerth says he hopes his party’s programme for government will get backing from across the Senedd

The Guardian - UK · May 10

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privately

The Guardian - UK · May 10

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Education secretary says voters feel let down but do not want Labour to ‘spend more time talking amongst ourselves’

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The Guardian - UK · May 10

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

Focus group sceptical that replacing Keir Starmer would improve party’s fortunes, with some drawn to Reform or the Greens

The Guardian - UK · May 9

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

Starmer faces prospect of challenge as ex-minister says she will try to trigger race if no one in cabinet comes forward

The Guardian - UK · May 9

‘I’ll talk to work on Monday’: what happens when a ‘paper candidate’ actually wins?

Tyrone Scott, who didn’t think he had a hope in the election, wants to help the Greens rebuild ‘community cohesion’ in Hackney

The Guardian - UK · May 9

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party after 100 years

Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapse

The Guardian - UK · May 9

Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK

SNP leader wants to ensure voices of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland ‘are heard loud and clear’

The Guardian - UK · May 9

Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign

Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls

The Guardian - UK · May 9

British leader Keir Starmer under pressure after heavy election losses

Labour party loses more than 1,400 English council seats and crashes out in Welsh and Scottish parliament votes

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