Makerfield by-election

Nigel Farage flailing is extremely funny

People hate Keir Starmer. But a lot of people hate Reform too

By Jonn Elledge

Makerfield proves the potency of Brand Burnham

Politics is a personality contest

By Luke Hurst

What does Andy Burnham really think?

As prime minister, Burnham would have to make some tough choices

By Megan Kenyon

The series that predicted Burnham’s Makerfield victory

Fifty years ago, Bill Brand anticipated Labour’s current upheaval

By Henry K Miller

Makerfield is Labour’s last lifeline

This is what Andy Burnham must do

By Ryan Wain

Andy Burnham wins big in Makerfield

His majority is larger than Labour’s 2024 general election landslide

By Ethan Croft

How British politics became a brand war

Voters are shopping for a better deal

By Anoosh Chakelian

Whose national character is it anyway?

The zeitgeist is hard to diagnose – but it has a powerful historical force

By Tom McTague

What will happen in a Manchester mayoral by-election?

Andy Burnham is likely to play a large role, whatever the circumstances

By Ethan Croft

Makerfield days

There is a white rage in the air and no by-election is going to change that

By Will Lloyd

Who’s normal enough for Makerfield?

Andy Burnham is relying on his accent, and his taste for meat pie

By Will Dunn

Meet Andy Burnham’s northern queens

Once sidelined by Starmer, Louise Haigh and Anneliese Midgley are major players behind the scenes

By Ailbhe Rea

What Makerfield believes

Exclusive: focus groups reveal the values that will determine the by-election

By Rachel Cunliffe

Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour

It’s not impossible

By Andrew Marr

Labour’s war of words

Has the party’s battle of ideas come too late?

By Megan Kenyon

Am I a chin-scratching intellectual?

I appeared in a walk-on role in an excellent profile of Andy Burnham

By Tom McTague

Can Andy Burnham survive the pressure of Westminster?

He calls his approach “Manchesterism” – but he looks lost when he tries to define it

By Joshi Herrmann

The fight for No 11

Also: sober frustrations, and learning from Robert Skidelsky

By Andrew Marr

Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?

Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come

By Megan Kenyon

Andy Burnham is a Starmerite

Should he ever become prime minister, we will have the same government with a different accent

By Rachel Cunliffe