{"id":957259,"date":"2026-05-13T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:01:16","slug":"from-streeting-to-burnham-here-are-starmers-rivals-to-run-britain-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957259\/","title":{"rendered":"From Streeting to Burnham, here are Starmer\u2019s rivals to run Britain \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

3) Ed Miliband<\/p>\n

Another big figure on the soft-left, the energy secretary has been here before. <\/p>\n

Miliband became Labour leader \u2014 beating his brother David Miliband \u2014 in 2010, though lost the subsequent 2015 general election to the Tories.<\/p>\n

A longtime ally of Starmer, Miliband has extolled the benefits of achieving net zero through cheap, home grown energy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Energy Secretary Ed Miliband arrives in Downing Street on May 12, 2026. | Carl Court\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The ex-Labour leader has repeatedly insisted he doesn\u2019t want the top job again. But with the other soft-left contenders facing big hurdles for the top job, his supporters could yet persuade him to be the standard bearer in an imminent leadership contest.<\/p>\n

A dark horse? <\/p>\n

Labour has more than 400 MPs, meaning the pool of possible leadership contenders is huge. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood <\/strong>has called on Starmer to consider laying out and orderly transition, while fellow Cabinet minister and Defence Secretary John Healey<\/strong> could pitch as a safe pair of hands in a volatile world.<\/p>\n

Watch for little-known ministers or even backbenchers to emerge from the shadows and present themselves as a totally fresh start from Starmer. Defence Minister Al Carns<\/strong>, a former regular Royal Marines officer, this week penned a near 1,000 word piece for the New Statesman<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cHow Labour Can Win Again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3) Ed Miliband Another big figure on the soft-left, the energy secretary has been here before. Miliband became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8916,9311,3444,748,1193,8514,6216,267267,17790,33,35,393,4884,40,33944,2819,807,25809,839,3739,12,1144,5111,28300,48,712,1200,16,15,1764,3595,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-957259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-andy-burnham","9":"tag-angela-rayner","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-customs","14":"tag-darren-jones","15":"tag-david-miliband","16":"tag-ed-miliband","17":"tag-elections","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-england","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-immigration","22":"tag-jeremy-corbyn","23":"tag-john-healey","24":"tag-keir-starmer","25":"tag-mayors","26":"tag-middle-east","27":"tag-net-zero","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-northern-ireland","30":"tag-parliament","31":"tag-peter-mandelson","32":"tag-rights","33":"tag-scotland","34":"tag-tax","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-wales","38":"tag-wes-streeting","39":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116567874318832140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}