Andy Burnham has backed Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party as he attempts to dampen rumours about a potential leadership bid. Asked at a fringe event at the Labour party conference if he ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will address the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday. Wooed before the general election in July last year, business leaders are now in a particularly ...

It has become impossible to picture Prime Minister Keir Starmer without a Union Flag backdrop. But this week’s Labour conference in Liverpool took the party’s jingoism to a new and repulsive level.

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its chief political commentator. Resentment of Andy Burnham’s popularity once ...

Labour is holding its 2025 conference against a backdrop of Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester, calling for “wholesale change”. Burnham is making a clear attempt to use the government’s record of ...