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Labour party leadership

September 2021

  • Sir Keir Starmer

    Starmer U-turns on party reform plan ahead of Labour conference

    Plan to return to electoral college dropped but deal agreed with unions to raise bar for leadership nomination
  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer still ‘in discussions’ on Labour leadership rule changes

    Leader faces tough decision on whether to press ahead with plans to drop one-member-one-vote system
    • The Guardian view on Labour’s voting plans: empower an electorate

    • Keir Starmer under pressure to delay Labour rules shake-up

    • Why is Keir Starmer trying to rewrite Labour leadership rules?

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer celebrated the party's narrow win in the Batley and Spen byelection by Kim Leadbeater, who he said showed 'incredible courage' to run.

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    Keir Starmer hails Kim Leadbeater's victory in Batley and Spen – video

  • Keir Starmer

    After Batley reprieve, Keir Starmer has hard task ahead to win over doubters

  • Labour has won the Batley and Spen byelection, winning 13,296 votes, with the Conservatives recording 12,973, a victory of just 323 votes

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    Labour's Kim Leadbeater narrowly wins Batley and Spen byelection – video

  • Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater is congratulated by her rivals after winning the Batley and Spen byelection.

    Leadbeater’s slim byelection win offers sweet relief for Starmer

  • Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer at visit to a construction skills centre in London in May 2021.

    Batley and Spen votes counted as Keir Starmer shrugs off leadership threats

    ‘Modest’ signs of hope for Labour following a day of speculation over potential leadership challenge

May 2021

  • Diane Abbott and Keir Starmer at a London rally calling for a second Brexit referendum, 2019.

    Losing byelection would be ‘curtains’ for Keir Starmer, says Diane Abbott

  • Diane Abbott

    Andy Burnham: unlikely heir to the left’s leadership ambitions?

    Diane Abbott
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Labour won’t see power again until it remembers the essentials of winning

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Gordon Brown at a rally in Glasgow

    Labour cannot return to past policies, says Gordon Brown after poll drubbing

April 2021

  • The Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, speaks to medical staff during a visit to Whittington hospital in London last month. Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters

    Today in Focus
    A year of Keir: has the Covid pandemic sidelined Labour's leader?

    Keir Starmer is marking a year as leader of the Labour party in which one issue has dominated above all else. The Guardian’s political editor, Heather Stewart, examines where the party is heading under his leadership
  • Keri Starmer

    Keir Starmer: one year in, Labour leader's popularity has plunged

    Pollsters say Hartlepool byelection is crucial, as ratings turn negative amid Tories’ Covid vaccine success
  • A year of Keir Starmer composite

    Amid unease on the left, Starmer aims to 'bring Labour home'

    A year on from landing the party’s top job, the leader plans on taking his message directly to the voters

February 2021

  • 'We haven't been good enough': Anas Sarwar pledges to rebuild Scottish Labour as leader – video

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer to launch fightback with Labour policy blitz

December 2020

  • Neil Kinnock

    Neil Kinnock: backing Brexit deal politically 'lethal' for Labour

    Former party leader tells colleagues in private Boris Johnson must be made to ‘own’ outcome of deal
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