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Labour party leadership

June 2024

  • Will Gaza cost Labour votes in east London? The view from Ilford – video

    In the run-up to July's election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party's treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities

May 2024

  • Composite image of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer

    Corbyn influence on Labour policy ‘well and truly over’, says Starmer

    Party leader’s remarks follow expulsion of predecessor, who decided to stand as independent candidate in general election

March 2024

  • Sir Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer faces discontent as Labour MPs reject union jack election flyers

    Exclusive: Members say flag may alienate ethnic minority voters as some associate it with far right

October 2023

  • Keir Starmer and Labour MPs welcome the newly elected Sarah Edwards, left, and Alistair Strathern, right, after the party’s byelection wins last week.

    Eyes on the prize: thinktank that put Keir Starmer and Labour on front foot

  • Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

    Will Jeremy Corbyn take on Labour for his Islington seat - and will he win?

September 2023

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Keir Starmer is borrowing from Tony Blair, but that doesn’t make him a Blairite

    Andrew Rawnsley
    One thing they share is the belief that the purpose of politics is to make things happen – and you only get to do that by winning power

February 2023

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Observer letters
    Why we voted for Jeremy Corbyn – all 12 million of us

    While Keir Starmer represents preservation of the status quo, his predecessor as leader of the Labour party represents change

September 2022

  • Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, speaking in Liverpool

    Party conference will be last before Labour governs, says Andy Burnham

    Greater Manchester mayor predicts party will win back lost ‘red wall’ seats in Q&A with Guardian editor-in-chief

July 2022

  • Sam Tarry (second from right) on a rail union picket line outside Euston station in London.

    Keir Starmer’s sacking of Sam Tarry a severe mistake, says John McDonnell

  • MANCHESTER, 30 June 2022 - Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, in his office at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in Manchester City centre.
Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    ‘The country is in a dangerous place – people are frightened’: Andy Burnham on power, progress and finding his place

June 2022

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer next to the deputy leader Angela Rayner during prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, London.

    Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner return questionnaires to Durham police

  • Prof Jon Tonge

    ‘Labour sure to win Wakefield’: more tips from the Mystic Meg of politics

March 2022

  • Labour’s Paulette Hamilton speaks after winning the Birmingham Erdington byelection.

    Erdington result shows there might not yet be enough enthusiasm for Labour

    Analysis: Despite a relatively comfortable victory, there is little for the party to be complacent about

January 2022

  • Laura Pidcock

    Member of Labour’s ruling body resigns after failure to restore whip to Corbyn

    Former MP Laura Pidcock says welcoming of Tory defector Christian Wakeford ‘crystallised unease’ over current leadership

September 2021

  • A ‘No purge’ sign held aloft during Keir Starmer’s speech.

    Labour heckling shows party is moving on, say Starmer allies

  • Keir Starmer during the Labour party conference

    I went to work for Keir Starmer because he promised to unite the party. I regret it now

    Simon Fletcher
  • Andy McDonald

    Sabotage claims as shadow minister quits in row with Labour leadership

  • Labour's shadow chancellor ,Rachel Reeves, said she would be 'the first green chancellor', announcing the party's biggest spending pledge to date

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    Rachel Reeves: I will be UK's first green chancellor – video

  • The Guardian view on Starmer’s Labour: time to take on the Tories

  • Old faces of New Labour in Keir Starmer’s inner circle

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