This is how punditry works: if Keir Starmer had let Andy Burnham run for Gorton and Denton, I’d have said he was weak. Block ...

Burnham - who could challenge Starmer as leader if he became an MP - said on Sunday he was "disappointed", and criticised the party for leaking the decision.

Bev Craig had been tipped to be the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election after the NEC refused to allow Andy ...

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham seeks approval to fight key by-election, which has sparked fresh leadership tensions inside ...

But with Keir Starmer off to China, David Lammy will be covering for him at DPMQs (aka Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions). By ...

I would recommend, to people in Wales who are tempted to go down this path, that they do get the right clinical advice before ...

Councillor Craig has now stressed her thinking in a new interview, in which she discusses her political roots in Northern ...

Her defection means there are now eight Reform MPs in the Commons ...

Scots have “100 days to save our NHS”, Scottish Labour has claimed as parties have laid out their elections stalls. The ...

The life and times of Andy Burnham: MP, minister, mayor – and now MP again?

A 10-strong group from Labour’s National Executive Committee, including the Prime Minister himself, voted to deny Mr Burnham permission to stand.

GB News presenter Matt Goodwin has been named as the Reform UK candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. The political ...