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Andy Burnham, front left, is sworn-in as an MP in the House of Common in London, England, June 22, 2026. (House of Commons via AP)
June 24, 2026, 7:44 pm
Andy Burnham inches closer to UK premiership as Starmer seeks legacy in final days
Potential Labour rivals Darren Jones and Wes Streeting step aside for popular Manchester mayor ahead of party vote; outgoing PM heads to Europe for meeting on Ukraine defense
By Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his resignation outside 10 Downing Street on the morning of June 22, 2026 (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)
June 22, 2026, 1:39 pm
How Starmer went from an election landslide to resignation in just two years
Mild-mannered Labour leader sold the UK on reliability and drama-free politics, but missteps, party infighting and a colossal error of judgment related to Epstein forces an early exit
By Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street to announce his resignation in London, Monday, June 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
June 22, 2026, 1:35 pm
Keir Starmer announces resignation as UK premier, to stay on until successor picked
Two years after leading Labour to landslide, Starmer’s popularity has plummeted; outgoing PM says he inherited ‘morally bankrupt’ party, ripped out ‘poison of antisemitism’
By Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with local residents as he visits a housing development in north London, June 19, 2026. (Peter Macdiarmid/Pool Photo via AP)
June 21, 2026, 3:02 pm
UK’s Starmer set to announce timeline for resignation on Monday — report
Embattled British PM likely to announce he’ll step down in autumn, Guardian reports, paving way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to succeed him, though others may run
By AP and ToI Staff
Then-UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting leaves 10 Downing Street after a cabinet meeting in London, Tuesday, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
May 16, 2026, 8:18 pm
UK’s ex-health minister Streeting says will run to replace PM Keir Starmer
Recently resigned minister says Labour needs ‘proper’ leadership contest; popular Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham also launches run, seen as favorite to unseat Starmer
By Agencies
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer enters his car to leave after delivering a speech at the Coin Street Neighborhood Center in Waterloo, London, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
May 12, 2026, 3:57 am
UK’s Starmer under pressure as ministers reportedly ask him to step down
British PM vows to remain in role despite party’s local election losses, as four ministerial aides quit and over 70 Labour MPs publicly call for his resignation
By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Sam Tabahriti
Britain's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall, in Ealing, west London, May 8, 2026, a day after the local elections. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
May 10, 2026, 4:47 am
UK’s Starmer challenged by former Labour minister after dismal local election results
Catherine West says cabinet must work out plan to replace the prime minister or she’ll make a leadership bid herself, and warns others may do the same
By Sarah Young
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (C) celebrates with the party's newly elected Mayor of Lewisham, Liam Shrivastava (centre R), and supporters, outside the count center in Lewisham, south London, on May 8, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
May 9, 2026, 12:23 pm
Anti-Israel Greens win 2 mayoralties, 5 councils in UK local elections; hard-right Reform is big winner
Farage’s Reform would be largest party in Parliament if general elections were held today; Polanski’s Green Party, engulfed in antisemitism scandals, wins mayoralty and council control in London’s Hackney, home to large ultra-Orthodox community
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shows his socks as he arrives at a polling station in Walton on the Naze, England, May 7, 2026 to cast his vote in the local elections.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)
May 8, 2026, 4:41 pm
In UK local elections, anti-immigrant Reform soars; anti-Israel Greens rise, win 2 mayoralties
Starmer says he won’t quit; new mayor of Hackney reportedly blocked letter praising London police for response to antisemitic attack; Farage says results show ‘truly historic shift’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A man puts up 'polling station' signs at a makeshift polling station set up at St John's Parish Hall in central London on May 7, 2026, as polls open for local elections. (Peter Nicholls / AFP)
May 7, 2026, 10:13 am
UK holds local elections, with left- and right-wing populist parties expected to surge
Polls show PM Starmer’s Labour losing ground amid discontent and Epstein scandal, pushing Polanski’s anti-Israel Greens and Farage’s anti-immigrant Reform UK to the forefront
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Downing Street, in London, March 16, 2026. (Brook Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)
May 6, 2026, 12:11 pm
Local elections in UK could hasten end of embattled PM Keir Starmer’s tenure
Amid Epstein-Mandelson scandal and economic struggles worsened by Iran war, the center-left leader faces a party crisis as expert says his ouster is matter of ‘when rather than if’
By Jill Lawless
Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer poses for a selfie with Green Party leader Zack Polanski after winning the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election, at Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, on February 27, 2026. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
February 27, 2026, 4:42 pm
UK Green Party’s election upset is a crippling blow to Labour – and a major boon to anti-Zionism
As ruling Labour comes in a dismal third in Manchester’s heavily Muslim district of Gorton and Denton, voters seem to heed the BDS-supporting Greens’ call to punish Starmer for supporting Gaza ‘genocide’
By Robert Philpot
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with members of the audience after delivering a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, February 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
February 9, 2026, 1:40 pm
UK leader Starmer fights for his job as ex-ambassador’s Epstein links spark crisis
PM to address his Labour Party’s lawmakers behind closed doors amid scandal over his selection of envoy Peter Mandelson, who had ties to disgraced financier
By Jill Lawless
Two people wait to enter the home of Lord Peter Mandelson in north west London, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (Maja Smiejkowska/PA via AP)
February 6, 2026, 10:17 pm
UK police raid two properties linked to Mandelson as part of Epstein probe
Search follows release of documents suggesting former minster and US ambassador passed confidential economic plans to sex offender while serving as business secretary
By AP
Then-British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson speaks during the rededication ceremony of the George Washington Statue in the National Gallery in London, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
February 3, 2026, 7:58 pm
UK’s former US envoy quits House of Lords amid backlash over Epstein ties
Parliament preparing legislation to strip Lord Mandelson of title after released records show correspondence with Epstein, $75,000 in payments from sex offender in 2003-04
By Agencies
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