Here's how Reform UK ousted Labour in Calderdale

Labour previously had full control over Calderdale Council since 2019 before they were ousted by Reform UK.

Farage Racks Up UK Election Gains as Voters Punish Starmer - Bloomberg.com

Farage Racks Up UK Election Gains as Voters Punish Starmer  Bloomberg.com

How do Labour leadership challenges work?

Keir Starmer’s party has less experience in ousting leaders than the Conservatives

French Socialists fracture over presidential primary

Boris Vallaud, leader of the Socialists in the Assemblée Nationale, announced his resignation from the party leadership on Friday. He accused Socialist head Olivier Faure of pursuing 'a strategy of isolation and deadlock' ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party

Disregard from UK Labour and struggling public services are just some of reasons behind ‘astonishing’ collapse UK politics live – latest updates By Friday night, Keir Starmer and much of the Westminster Labour group were quietly relieved that the local election results in England hadn’t been quite as bad as feared. In Wales, however, Labour’s collapse in the Senedd was even more total than the most pessimistic predictions. For more than 100 years, Welsh Labour was the democratic world’s mos...

By Bethan McKernan and Jamie Grierson

Britain's Starmer weakened and Labour exposed in local elections

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer moved quickly to acknowledge a bruising local election result for his governing Labour Party, appearing before cameras before the final votes were counted in a contest widely seen as a referendum on his leadership.

UK local elections: "Starmer must address voters' frustration over change"

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under growing pressure after Labour suffered major setbacks in local elections across England, while also struggling in Wales and Scotland as Reform UK continued to gain support. The results have raised fresh questions about Starmer’s leadership less than a year after leading Labour back into government. France 24’s Gavin Lee speaks to James Lyons, who served under Starmer in Downing Street and previously worked as political editor at the Daily Mirro...

By Gavin LEE

How a Tory MP 37 years ago has inspired a Labour MP’s ‘stalking horse’ leadership challenge to Starmer

Political editor David Maddox looks at how Sir Anthony Meyer’s challenge to Margaret Thatcher in 1989 is now being played out in 2026 by Catherine West’s bid to oust Sir Keir Starmer

By David Maddox

Keir Starmer appoints former prime minister Gordon Brown as special envoy on global finance

Brown set to develop new international finance partnerships to support defense and security-related investment

By Bloomberg News

‘Labour are doomed’: Nigel Farage hits out at Starmer over Gordon Brown’s appointment after election rout

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By TOI World Desk

Labour MP to challenge Keir Starmer for leadership

Catherine West has given a deadline of Monday for the PM to step down

By Ethan Croft

Starmer appoints Brown as adviser after election losses

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed former prime minister Gordon Brown as a special envoy on global finance.

UK PM Starmer, aiming for leadership reset, says former PM Gordon Brown to become adviser

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer named former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as his special envoy on global finance on Saturday, turning to a man credited with shoring up banks during the global financial crisis to help bolster his own support. Starmer is on the back foot after the Labour Party recorded the worst losses of […]

UK PM Starmer vows to fight on after local polls drubbing

Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain's prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties.

By RFI

Starmer defies calls to quit after electoral bloodbath for Labour

Keir Starmer’s position is being questioned by some Labour MPs.

Kwankwaso opens up on exit from ADC, future in NDC

Mr Kwankwaso, alongside former Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, officially dumped the ADC last week to join the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The post Kwankwaso opens up on exit from ADC, future in NDC appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

By Anas Dansalma