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Fighting Starmer wins another chance, but is still surrounded by peril
Politics•February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PMNational

Fighting Starmer wins another chance, but is still surrounded by peril

By Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor•The Guardian - UK News

Polling is bad, crucial tests are looming, his party is a tinderbox and the leadership genie is hard to rebottle“Is it over?” That was the question that Labour MPs have been asking themselves and each other. But the meaning has shifted over the last 24 hours.After last Wednesday afternoon’s chaos in the Commons over the release of the Peter Mandelson documents, MPs widely believed it was the final throes of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Continue reading...

Polling is bad, crucial tests are looming, his party is a tinderbox and the leadership genie is hard to rebottle

“Is it over?” That was the question that Labour MPs have been asking themselves and each other. But the meaning has shifted over the last 24 hours.

After last Wednesday afternoon’s chaos in the Commons over the release of the Peter Mandelson documents, MPs widely believed it was the final throes of Keir Starmer’s leadership.

Continue reading...

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