Overview
- Deputy leader Lucy Powell told British Vogue it "would be madness to get into a conversation about changing leaders" following weeks of leadership speculation.
- Powell urged a strategic "course correction," saying Labour must prove mainstream progressive politics can deliver and position itself as the "anti-Farage alliance."
- She acknowledged recent government missteps, citing the halt to the winter fuel allowance and welfare cuts that prompted U-turns and, she said, left voters feeling Labour was not on their side.
- Vogue, as reported by the Manchester Evening News, cites polling putting Labour around 18% and Reform UK at about 33%.
- Speculation about Andy Burnham returning to Westminster persists, though he has dismissed recent reports on X; talk of potential seats has included Gorton and Denton, which suspended MP Andrew Gwynne says he will not vacate.