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With Burnham and his team potentially having only weeks before he becomes PM, Starmer has agreed to give him access to civil service.

George Shipley doesn’t mince his words. The 34-year-old acting skipper stands on the quayside at Brixham harbour, the smell of salt and diesel thick in the early morning air, white plastic boxes stacked behind him and the Devon hills rising beyond the trawlers, and says what every fisherman here is thinking.

Waving his mic like a maraca, DJ for the night Andy Burnham joked to his audience: “This goes out to all the politicians in the room.”

Andy Burnham has laid out his plans for the country as he celebrated his landslide victory at a rally following the Makerfield by-election.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday he would not walk away, vowing to fight any challenge from his leading party rival Andy Burnham and potentially ushering in a new bout of political instability.

Andy Burnham has won the crunch Makerfield by-election, setting him on course to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.

The Welsh government has expressed disappointment that a meeting promised by Sir Keir Starmer with First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth in June is not taking place.

Romeo Beckham has been fined and handed penalty points after police caught him using his phone while sitting behind the wheel of his luxury sports car in central London.

A former key member of Nicola Sturgeon’s team has backed calls for an inquiry into how her ex-husband was able to embezzle more than £400,000 from the SNP.

Andy Burnham has confirmed that he supports capping political donations in the UK, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer’s Government.

Andy Burnham’s effort to return to Parliament has been criticized by opposition MPs over the potential cost of a by-election for his position as Greater Manchester mayor.

The weirdest thing about weeks like the last one in Westminster is ... they don’t feel that weird anymore.

Josh Simons tells LBC that the Greater Manchester Mayor has brilliant qualities, but won’t fix Labour’s problems in one fell swoop.

Angela Rayner seems in the running for the Labour leadership race after saying she been cleared by HMRC of wrongdoing over her tax affairs. We take a closer look at the woman behind the politics.

A man has appeared in court charged with a £5 million blackmail attempt after he allegedly stole clients’ information from the exclusive Soho House and threatened to sell it.

Andy Burnham has a credible plan to return to Westminster “within weeks”, his allies have said, with the Greater Manchester mayor expected to use a byelection fight to set out a new agenda for government.

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has had his conviction for damaging the mobile phone of a transgender activist overturned following an appeal hearing at Southwark Crown Court.

An NHS doctor charged with posting on social media in support of Hamas wore a ‘celebratory’ number 7 necklace in court today as she faces a trial next year.

You can’t kill something that is already dead. New details about Peter Mandelson’s disastrous appointment as Britain’s ambassador to Washington can trigger more paroxysms of outrage in Westminster.

Victims of rape and sexual violence have informed parliamentarians that they felt anxious and distressed during a Westminster evidence session.