UK’s Starmer hopes a vision of ‘renewal’ can silence doubts about his leadership

LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer never had much of a political honeymoon. Now some members of his political party are considering divorce.

Little more than a year after winning power in a landslide, Britain’s prime minister is fighting to keep the support of his party, and to fend off Nigel Farage, whose hard-right Reform UK has a consistent lead in opinion polls

The next election is as much as four years away, but as thousands of Labour Party members gather Sunday for their annual conference beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, lawmakers are growing anxious. A potential leadership rival has emerged in Andy Burhnam, the ambitious mayor of Manchester.

Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said the party’s mood is “febrile.”

“They’ve only been in government a yea