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 ...

EVEN for the blood sport that is modern politics, the Gorton and Denton by-election is proving a vicious, poisonous affair. The south-east Manchester seat has already witnessed the strangulation ...

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has said that no law mandates that a governor operate from anywhere other than the ...

As voters polarised around the question of leaving the EU —which most Londoners opposed—the city swung towards Labour. The share of marginal seats which were in London fell from 14% in 2015 to 8% in ...

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

With Keir Starmer away in China, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was pushed on the financial pressures facing Britain’s pubs by the Conservative shadow business secretary. After DPMQs, Home Office ...

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

One Birmingham councillor said it would take "years to recover the reputation of the city" ...

Eluned Morgan’s fiftieth session as first minister comes to a close. Conservative Andrew RT Davies raises further concerns about the running of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, commonly ...