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Forget Burnham – who could take over from Starmer?
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David Maddox, our political editor, wraps up Labour conference with a list of who he thinks are the five credible candidates who could replace the prime minister if the worst comes to the worst for Keir Starmer. They do not include Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, who we report would be blocked from returning to parliament. Maddox's five are: Wes Streeting, Ed Miliband, Shabana Mahmood, David Lammy and Angela Rayner. Each has strengths and weaknesses, or in some cases delusions, but what is striking is how hard it is to imagine 80 Labour MPs lining up to nominate one of those candidates to trigger a leadership election, in which that candidate would then win the votes of party members. Which is why I wrote last weekend that Starmer could yet survive to lead Labour into the next general election. | |
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| Prime minister returned from Copenhagen to chair Cobra meeting |
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| Conservative leader took a swipe at her shadow justice secretary ahead of the party's conference in Manchester this weekend |
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| Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised for 'reprehensible' behaviour |
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- Patsy Stevenson: This is the snarling face of the police that women like me fear
- Mary Dejevsky: Goodness, Greta, what on earth's the point of your Gaza flotillas?
- I wrote yesterday that it may take a human rights lawyer prime minister to reform human rights law
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Critics argue that the prime minister is becoming "Reform-lite"; others see the review as a practical response to uninvited immigration, particularly record Channel crossings... Read more |
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Two hundred years ago, there were lots of people who said we shouldn't build railways because they were expensive, and they were intrusive, and we should keep with our well-trusted toll roads and canals
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| Lord Deben, the former John Gummer, Tory environment secretary, unimpressed by Kemi Badenoch's plan to repeal the net zero climate target |
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