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Starmer warns of 'chaos' amid speculation about challenge
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BBC Politics13 May 2026
Starmer hopes to save his job with promise of change - and warnings of chaos
There is a big moment coming in the next 24 hours, for Sir Keir Starmer and for would-be challengers to the prime minister.
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BBC Politics13 May 2026
Starmer hopes to save his job with promise of change - and warnings of chaos
There is a big moment coming in the next 24 hours, for Sir Keir Starmer and for would-be challengers to the prime minister.
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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026
As Westminster rages, and Labour sinks into civil war: what about the people? | Aditya Chakrabortty
Voters are desperate for a turnaround in living standards. The runners and riders for the Labour leadership must address this “Westminster is a cocoon. Lots of people in lovely jobs, so it becomes easy to forget the world outside.” Catherine West should know. She’s been an MP for 11 years, even if you hadn’t heard of her until this weekend when the Labour backbencher threatened Keir Starmer for the leadership, firing the first shots in the civil war that now engulfs the government. Before Wes St
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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026
‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny
One of PM’s expanding cohort of critics in Labour party says policy programme ‘sums up where we have gone wrong’ For Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, his second king’s speech, in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation of everything that was wrong with the prime minister’s strategy. Over 34 bills and three draft ones, Starmer set out a programme he said would “make this country stronger and fairer”. But the package, which inc
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Express Politics13 May 2026
Wes Streeting slapped down as Kemi Badenoch warns him 'do your job!'
Conservative leader takes aim at Health Secretary over his reported leadership ambitions
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Conservative Home13 May 2026
Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk
In Matviichuk, Ukraine has found not only a witness to its suffering, but a voice articulating the stakes of a much larger struggle. For this is not merely a war over territory. It is, as she sees it, a defining contest between law and power, between dignity and domination. The post Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk appeared first on Conservative Home.
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Express Politics13 May 2026
Nightmare for Keir Starmer as another leadership rival sets out ‘save Labour’ plan
Military Cross winner Al Carns has delivered a vision to rescue hs party as it takes a battering from current crisis
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Conservative Home13 May 2026
Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’
Tony Blair made ‘education, education, education’ the centrepiece of New Labour’s message and was duly rewarded. Thirty years later, the Welsh Tories missed a signal opportunity to do the same - and Welsh youngsters may suffer as a result. The post Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’ appeared first on Conservative Home.
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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026
Easy as ABC: voters in England tend to pick names nearer top of ballot, data suggests
Exclusive: Where parties fielded multiple candidates in last week’s vote, those at top of list were more likely to be picked Fancy your chances in politics? Then perhaps you should change your name to Aaron Aaronson or Aaliyah Aardvark, figures from last week’s local elections in England suggest. A Guardian analysis of election results compiled by the website Democracy Club points to a striking alphabet effect. In wards where a party fielded three candidates, those listed nearer the top of the b
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Express Politics13 May 2026
Nigel Farage wins over the working class as they turn against Labour
OPINION - TIM NEWARK: Reform shows it is on the side of the strivers as Labour looks like it is on the way out
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The Guardian Politics13 May 2026
Labour-supporting unions predict Starmer will not lead party into next election
Exclusive: Leaked draft statement says party ‘cannot continue on its current path’ under PM Keir Starmer will not lead his party into the next general election, Labour-supporting unions have predicted, in an intervention that threatens to further destabilise the prime minister after a damaging few days. The 11 Labour-affiliated unions – which include Unite, Unison and the GMB – are expected to issue a joint statement on Wednesday saying “at some stage” the party will have to put a plan in place
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