The polls are all sending the same message. Andy Burnham is on course for a close, but clear, victory. At which point, the final act of Keir Starmer's premiership will open.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing a leadership coup within hours of Thursday's by-election in Makerfield if Andy Burnham wins the crunch contest, Labour MPs have said.

Burnham will have earned his bid for the top job and cheerleaders in Parliament want him to move fast. But a loss won't necessarily save Starmer

‘Labour members are not Corbynistas any more, many of them joined because of Keir’

Streeting reaffirms that he would fight in any leadership battle during speech on the economy

Former health secretary said he had ‘no doubt’ there would be a Labour leadership contest as he said he hopes Andy Burnham wins a seat in Parliament later this week

The polls are all sending the same message. Andy Burnham is on course for a close, but clear, victory. At which point, the final act of Keir Starmer's premiership will open.

Andy Burnham plans to give Sir Keir Starmer one final chance to 'do the decent thing' and resign before orchestrating a putsch to remove him from Downing Street.

Speaking from the G7 summit amid growing threats to his leadership, Sir Keir Starmer described Andy Burnham as a ‘huge asset to our party and our movement’

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