Andy Burnham

Wes Streeting’s “battle of ideas”

We are getting a sense of what the former health secretary would do in government

By Megan Kenyon

It’s Makerfield or break for Andy Burnham

This by-election is a once-in-a-lifetime, all-out fight between social democracy and right-wing populism

By Andrew Marr

Did Farage give our Guardian scoop to the Telegraph?

Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground reporters, and jet lag meets its match

By Katharine Viner

Can Andy Burnham discover why Britain is failing?

Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty

By Tom McTague

Reform unveils its challenger to Andy Burnham

Who is Robert Kenyon – and can he beat Labour?

By Megan Kenyon

Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism

The Manchester mayor has launched his bid to return to parliament

By Megan Kenyon

Tony Benn’s lesson for Andy Burnham

This isn’t the first time a Labour leadership challenger needed a seat

By Richard Johnson

How to placate the bond markets

Would an Andy Burnham premiership send borrowing costs spiralling?

By Will Dunn

Wes Streeting reopens the Brexit box

The leadership contest has put the EU question back on the table – but to what end?

By Megan Kenyon

The Labour Party is dead, and Starmer has killed it

Any progressive new leader will face the task of reviving a corpse

By David Edgerton

Anthony Barnett: England, ethno-nationalism and what I told Andy Burnham

The author on the break-up of Britain and why Burnham must embrace constitutional reform

By Nicholas Harris

Labour’s “horrible but necessary” week

The news that Andy Burnham found a seat to stand in shook Labour out of its leadership deadlock

By Ailbhe Rea

Labour’s myopic plotters need to grow up

Removing a prime minister requires a serious debate, not this shambles

By Lionel Barber

Keir Starmer clings on

There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister from office

By Ethan Croft

Labour faces “civil war” to replace Starmer

The Prime Minister is nearly out of luck. But his challengers disagree about what comes next

By Tom McTague

The case for Manchesterism

If Labour has the courage to build a productive state, the party could truly reshape Britain for the better

By Mathew Lawrence

Keir Starmer will not go gently

Keir Starmer’s determination to carry on blows up the short-lived “orderly transition” theory

By Ethan Croft

Is Andy Burnham actually the answer?

The barriers to his coronation are practical, not political

By Jonn Elledge

The Raynerites and Burnhamites have united

Keir Starmer’s weakness has smoothed over differences among the soft left

By Ethan Croft

Does anything remain of Starmerism?

Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport

By Andrew Marr