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Express Politics15 May 2026

Huge warning issued that Andy Burnham will reverse Brexit and dump UK back in EU

Andy Burnham has previously demanded Britain rejoin the EU - and is now plotting a return to Parliament in a constituency where 65% voted Leave.

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Conservative Home15 May 2026

Helen Whately: Starmer’s failure is a stark warning to all politicians who think they can wing it and promise the moon

The country is fed up. Fed up with politicians promising but not delivering. Fed up with seeing their taxes spent on things they don’t want – from far flung aid projects to hand-outs to migrants. Fed up with working all hours and having nothing left at the end of the month. The post Helen Whately: Starmer’s failure is a stark warning to all politicians who think they can wing it and promise the moon appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics15 May 2026

Digested week: Starmer’s day of reckoning was foreseen – just not the level of drama | John Crace

While Tories are quite ruthless about removing a leader, Labour MPs can’t decide whether their regicide is a tragedy or comedy No one can say they weren’t warned. Last week’s elections had always been marked out as a time of maximum danger for Keir Starmer if the results were as bad as feared. And so it proved. Only no one had anticipated quite the level of drama that would go with it. While the Tories have always been quite ruthless about getting rid of a leader they deem surplus to requirement

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The Guardian Politics15 May 2026

Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

Climate and transport organisations warn ministers not to ‘sleepwalk into crisis’ amid Iran war oil and gas shortages Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations. The group – including Greenpeace and Transport and Environment – are calling on ministers not to “sleepwalk into a crisis” that could lead to severe shortages of jet

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Express Politics15 May 2026

Labour MP issues Andy Burnham grim Reform warning as 'King in the North' plots path to PM

EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Manchester announced that he is going to try once again to become an MP.

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The Guardian Politics15 May 2026

Starmer ally admits prime minister is ‘unpopular’ but warns of ‘chaos’ if leadership contest triggered – UK politics live

Pressure is intensifying on Keir Starmer after Andy Burnham was given a route back to parliament Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. Housing secretary Steve Reed has been on the media round this morning urging Labour colleagues to put the “country first, party second”, even as he admits Keir Starmer is “unpopular”. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics15 May 2026

Starmer loyalist warns against ‘copying Tories’ but admits PM is unpopular

Housing secretary Steve Reed says no one has numbers for challenge and Labour should row in behind prime minister One of Keir Starmer’s closest allies in the cabinet has conceded that the prime minister is “unpopular” but has insisted Labour should not repeat the same pattern of changing leaders that damaged the Conservatives. The housing secretary, Steve Reed, one of Starmer’s most loyal ministers and staunch defenders, told broadcasters on Friday that no one had the numbers to challenge him an

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Conservative Home15 May 2026

Jessaline Caine: Kemi was right to clobber the Tory source of some Worcestershire woes

If the Conservative Party becomes an anti-Reform cartel, it will not defeat Reform. It will vindicate it. Worcestershire should be treated as a warning, not a model. And on that, Kemi was right to draw the line The post Jessaline Caine: Kemi was right to clobber the Tory source of some Worcestershire woes appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics15 May 2026

Farage bets on Reform election victory within 12 months: 'this mob won't last three years'

Nigel Farage has predicted a Reform UK election victory within 12 months, warning that a coming economic crash will sweep Labour from power.

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BBC Politics14 May 2026

Farage says £5m gift a reward for Brexit campaigning

The Reform UK leader, who is facing a Commons standards probe, said he "cannot be bought by anybody".

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The Guardian Politics14 May 2026

Nigel Farage now says £5m from crypto billionaire was ‘reward’ for Brexit push

Reform UK leader offers new explanation for gift, which is under investigation, having first said it was for his security UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has provided a new explanation for why he accepted a £5m gift from a Reform UK donor in the weeks before he announced he would stand in the last general election. In an interview on Thursday, Farage said the money was a “reward” for campaigning for Brexit. Previously, he had said the gift was given for security purposes, to kee

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The Guardian Politics14 May 2026

Labour winds are blowing towards Burnham – and Streeting knows it

Now former health secretary and Manchester mayor could be about to make an unlikely deal to oust Keir Starmer Who said the Labour party needs “a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism … It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates”? Until this morning, almost everyone would have attributed those words to Andy Burnham, the mayor or Greater Manchester. But those were the closing paragraphs of the former health secretary Wes Streeting’s resignation l

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