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
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Did Farage give our Guardian scoop to the Telegraph?
Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground reporters, and jet lag meets its match
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Can Andy Burnham discover why Britain is failing?
Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty
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Letter of the week: A rising tide lifts small boats
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism
The Manchester mayor has launched his bid to return to parliament
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How to stop Reform
Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Suzanne Moore, Zack Polanski and others reflect on Nigel Farage’s surging party
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Don’t underestimate Labour’s dark horses
The rules of leadership contests are strange, and can be decisive
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Labour’s Reform defectors are never coming back
After years of neglecting progressives, the party must learn there is no such thing as a “hero voter”.
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Never-ending chaos
Inside the two dramatic days that nearly brought down Keir Starmer
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“When it became about Wes, it was doomed”
The Labour left is furious at the Health Secretary’s allies for co-opting the challenge to Starmer
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Keir Starmer clings on
There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister from office
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It’s happening
Moves are underway to challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership
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Labour faces “civil war” to replace Starmer
The Prime Minister is nearly out of luck. But his challengers disagree about what comes next
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Catherine West: I’ve been inundated with support from MPs and could go all the way
The self-described “lone wolf” candidate no longer believes Keir Starmer can stop Nigel Farage
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Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown return to government
Keir Starmer attempts to shore up his government
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Labour’s post-mortem debate begins
The old two-party system is well and truly dead
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Local elections don’t matter
Councils are utterly, ruinously powerless
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A view of Britain from the Highlands
Also: a quirky kind of nationalism, and the wit of James Joyce
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The Town Hall Theory of Everything
In local elections, road problems rank ahead of the cost of living
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The conversation around Starmer is unignorable
The talk in Westminster is frenzied
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