The fight for No 11
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Is it time for Labour’s first female leader?
Party members find their history embarrassing
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An approaching comet augurs a Burnham ascendant
Labour might be in retrograde, but it has one shooting star
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What Britain won’t face
The country has chosen delusion over reality
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Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?
Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come
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Why central London needs social housing
Britain’s council housing remains one of our great public achievements
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Wes Streeting’s “battle of ideas”
We are getting a sense of what the former health secretary would do in government
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It’s Makerfield or break for Andy Burnham
This by-election is a once-in-a-lifetime, all-out fight between social democracy and right-wing populism
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Did Farage give our Guardian scoop to the Telegraph?
Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground reporters, and jet lag meets its match
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Can Andy Burnham discover why Britain is failing?
Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty
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Letter of the week: A rising tide lifts small boats
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism
The Manchester mayor has launched his bid to return to parliament
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How to stop Reform
Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Suzanne Moore, Zack Polanski and others reflect on Nigel Farage’s surging party
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Don’t underestimate Labour’s dark horses
The rules of leadership contests are strange, and can be decisive
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Labour’s Reform defectors are never coming back
After years of neglecting progressives, the party must learn there is no such thing as a “hero voter”.
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Never-ending chaos
Inside the two dramatic days that nearly brought down Keir Starmer
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“When it became about Wes, it was doomed”
The Labour left is furious at the Health Secretary’s allies for co-opting the challenge to Starmer
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Keir Starmer clings on
There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister from office
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It’s happening
Moves are underway to challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership
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Labour faces “civil war” to replace Starmer
The Prime Minister is nearly out of luck. But his challengers disagree about what comes next
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