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Andy Burnham has won the crunch Makerfield by-election, setting him on course to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.

A Reform MP has sparked an angry backlash after calling on the England World Cup team to keep winning in order to keep women safe from domestic violence.

The Welsh government has expressed disappointment that a meeting promised by Sir Keir Starmer with First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth in June is not taking place.

Polls have opened in Makerfield, where voters are set to take part in what could be one of the most consequential by-elections in British political history.

Keir Starmer has revealed how he plans to take the fight to Andy Burnham - and keep his job as Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham plans to give Sir Keir Starmer one final chance to ’do the decent thing’ and resign before orchestrating a putsch to remove him from Downing Street.

The Lib Dems will urge Andy Burnham to end Labour’s "torpor and timidity" towards the EU as they call for the UK to rejoin the single market, in a notable strengthening of their own position.

Wes Streeting has urged Sir Keir Starmer to set the date of his departure from Downing Street on Friday morning in the wake of the Makerfield by-election result.

Britain’s biggest union must prioritize fighting Reform UK, Unison’s conference heard today after its general secretary urged the government to drastically change course.

It’s a bleak, cold weekday afternoon in Hanley, one of the six towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands.

The Northern Ireland First Minister queried whether the move was ‘more about internal Labour Party politics than what is right’.

Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour party from 1983 to 1992, has died aged 93.

Nigel Farage should take his “nasty hate, anger and division” elsewhere, a Cabinet minister has said, after the Reform UK leader published a long essay about Britain being a two-tier state against white people.

The UK’s new defence secretary has said he is “absolutely determined” to provide the armed forces with the funding needed.

The UK and Japan are set to agree on £18 billion worth of investment, creating tens of thousands of jobs.

Wes Streeting has called for Keir Starmer to take urgent action against X and other online platforms that have contributed to escalating social tensions, suggesting they should be required to help cover rebuilding costs following the riots in Belfast.

Discourse is becoming more polarised and “communities don’t work together any more”, he said during a campaign speech.

Sir Keir’s authority suffered further blows in recent days after John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary, followed by Al Carns’ resignation as Armed Forces Minister, over the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP).

UK and European law has started from the premise that trans people exist since at least 1999.

The Prime Minister must focus on defence spending, former armed forces minister Al Carns told LBC after his resignation along with that of the defence secretary plunged Sir Keir Starmer’s Government into a fresh crisis.

Keir Starmer has suffered another setback after his Armed Forces minister resigned, just hours after the Defence Secretary’s departure.

John Healey has dramatically quit as defence secretary, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to provide enough funding for the defence spending plan.

A bomb has gone off under Keir Starmer’s leadership.