Is Labour’s problem Starmer or something much deeper?
Keir Starmer has blocked Andy Burnham’s bid to run in the Gorton and Denton by-election, but has he just delayed the leadership challenge many in Westminster believe is inevitable?
If there is a challenge, does the Labour Party risk descending into the same internal conflicts that helped bring down the Conservatives?
Starmer's latest foreign destination is China for a meeting with President Xi but is travelling the globe as an international statesman staving off restless Labour MPs?
Meanwhile, he says his relentless focus is the cost-of-living crisis but are the public, or his MPs buying it?…
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