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Labour MP threatens Starmer with leadership challenge after election rout

Financial Times · Sat 09 May, 17:46

Catherine West says she has 10 backers as deputy leader Lucy Powell warns challengers not to provoke a contest

Financial Times

How do Labour leadership challenges work?

Keir Starmer’s party has less experience in ousting leaders than the Conservatives

Financial Times

The glory of low expectations

They are the key to happiness — and not a matter of choice

Financial Times

Gordon Brown returns to Number 10 as global finance envoy

Some bemused Labour MPs say appointment is a curious response to Labour’s election drubbing

Financial Times

Tenerife prepares to evacuate hantavirus cruise ship

Passengers with symptoms could be sent to isolation on the island, health officials warn

BBC News

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will, Labour MP tells cabinet

Catherine West tells the BBC if a leadership hopeful does not put themselves forward she will try to trigger a contest.

BBC News

Labour MPs have put Starmer on notice after election battering. Can he turn it around?

Even the prime minister's most loyal ministers are pushing him to change, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

BBC News

How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland

Many voters have turned to Reform UK with devastating consequences for the main two parties, Labour and the Conservatives.

BBC News

Britons on virus-hit cruise ship to isolate at hospital after being flown to UK

The MV Hondius is expected to dock in the Canary Islands this weekend.

The Economist

How a Ukrainian strike on a Russian oil hub caused catastrophe

How a Ukrainian strike on a Russian oil hub caused catastrophe The Economist

The Economist

Nigel Farage’s triumph is not quite what it seems

Nigel Farage’s triumph is not quite what it seems The Economist

NYT Europe

Passengers on Hantavirus Cruise Ship Will Disembark in Tenerife and Return to Home Countries

The cruise ship will arrive on the island of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands of Spain, officials said. All of...

NYT Europe

Britain’s Electorate Is ‘Splintering.’ Can Its System Stand the Strain?

Insurgent parties like Reform U.K. surged at the polls this week. But the British electoral system wasn’t built for...

The Telegraph

Challenge Starmer or I will, Labour MP tells Cabinet

The Telegraph

‘Come on you Irons!’: Guardiola turns West Ham fan as Man City keep title race alive

Wales

BBC Wales

What does Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth do next after election victory?

Plaid forged a stunning election victory, and its leader's thoughts are now on building a government.

BBC Wales

I took one of the most famous photos of the Aberfan disaster – it still haunts me

Mel Parry took one of the defining images of the Aberfan disaster, but "wished he'd never taken it".

BBC Wales

Plaid Cymru wants to run Welsh government on its own, leader says

Rhun ap Iorwerth said he will try to run a minority government after his party's Senedd election triumph.

BBC Wales

Dan Thomas: The ex-London council leader in charge of big Senedd opposition group

The Reform Wales leader has been on a steep learning curve and has challenges ahead in Cardiff Bay.

Sport

BBC Sport

Watch: Match of the Day

Gabby Logan presents highlights from the day’s five Premier League games.

BBC Sport · Football

'The goals are coming' - is Doku keeping Man City in title race?

Jeremy Doku said last month that he needed to add more goals to his game to be considered one of the best wingers in...

BBC Sport · Football

Boos, no intensity and no identity - what is Slot's Liverpool?

More boos at Anfield highlight why Liverpool must change their style during a seismic summer for Arne Slot.

BBC Sport · Rugby Union

Four-try Packer 'doesn't go away' as England set up Grand Slam decider

Four-try veteran flanker Marlie Packer "doesn't go away" as she eyes a fitting England finale in Bordeaux's Women's...

The Race · F1

Gary Anderson: F1's engine numbers still don't add up

Gary Anderson can't see how the changes F1's planning for 2027 will actually solve its problems

The Race · F1

Shorter races needed? F1's 2027 rule changes face big complications

F1 2027 rule changes have been agreed 'in principle' - but there's a key complication that must be addressed before...

The Race · F1

A 'delightful move'? Our verdict on F1's big 2027 engine shift

Is F1's move (in principle) to make fundamental changes to its engine rules an own-goal, or should we just be...

The Race · F1

F1 agrees plan to ditch '50/50' engine power split for 2027

F1 has agreed a plan for engine rule changes for 2027 that will include ditching the notional 50/50 power split...

Formula 1 Official

TREMAYNE: Miami proved Colapinto has rediscovered his mojo

After a dip in 2025, Franco Colapinto has found his groove again – and the F1 buzz is well and truly back among...

Formula 1 Official

The statistic that suggests Antonelli is set to become a champion

Kimi Antonelli joined an exclusive club of Formula 1 drivers who have won three or more races on the bounce with his...

ESPN Cricinfo

Stokes falls to Home-town hero as Worcestershire keep Durham in check

England's Test captain out for 14 to young seamer Jack Home in first innings since the Ashes

ESPN Cricinfo

Glamorgan's Tom Norton makes history with hat-trick on debut

Somerset rocked to 32 for 6 second innings as 18-year old runs riot with four dismissals

Science

New Scientist

There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of 4.1 millimetres...

New Scientist

A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up...

New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans...

New Scientist

Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle

An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange...

Nature

Radioactive rain and proving relativity: Books in brief

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01500-0Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature

‘Undruggable’ cancer proteins meet their match

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01447-2People with a deadly form of pancreatic cancer...

Nature

World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01501-zUniversities that run the National Center for...

Nature

Goodbye GDP? 31 ways to replace the world's favourite measure of economic health

Nature, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01511-xProposed UN progress indicators include...

Technology

The Verge