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Keir Starmer is preparing to set out a timetable for his departure from No 10 this week after Andy Burnham’s triumphant return to Westminster in the Makerfield byelection. Read @RSylvester1's exclusive now: bit.ly/4emIHWv

Exeter gave all in season that started on the beach and ended in battle bit.ly/4w5bODJ

Remember Gordon! Why Labour should take a beat before parachuting in Andy Burnham bit.ly/3QUACzd

Temperatures to hit 35C as extreme heat alerts extended bit.ly/3QBVScN

Joe Root steers sinking ship as Ben Stokes inflates the lifeboat bit.ly/4eB3rIP

The Observer issue no. 12,237: They think it’s all over EXCLUSIVE from @RSylvester1: Starmer expected to resign tomorrow Includes: Prime minister accepts his position is ‘no longer tenable’ Burnham backed by majority of Labour MPs Starmer to set out timetable for departure Goalhanger: how Burnham the footballer plays the game Plus: 16-page World Cup supplement in Sport Staying out for the summer in New Review Could you survive on foraged food? in Magazine Pick up a copy today, available nationwide. Subscribe to get a copy of The Observer delivered right to your door every week.

Harry Kane leaves fellow England strikers trailing in his wake bit.ly/3SjVL6m

Reform insiders urge Nigel Farage to sack ‘problem’ Zia Yusuf after Makerfield defeat bit.ly/3Qxx0CY

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Teffont House, Wiltshire: ‘We’ve created somewhere we would like to go’ From the group behind the Beckford Arms, a new hotel that channels the welcoming plushness of a French auberge ✍️ Tabitha Joyce bit.ly/4vUjHeW

@PolitlcsUK You can read the full piece here: observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage is being urged to sack Zia Yusuf over concerns he will push Reform further right after the Makerfield defeat Senior Reform source: "We were definitely spooked by Restore, and I don’t think it was our finest hour" [@ObserverUK]

Read @CatNeilan's full piece here: observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

The 13 best festivals to book now. Big-name headliners, breakthrough artists and ‘kosmik bingo’ – our critics choose the summer’s best weekenders. ✍️ Ellen Peirson-Hagger bit.ly/4awzwR1

L’Orfeo – far from a maddened crowd at Glyndebourne William Kentridge’s bold new staging of Monteverdi might divide audiences, but it continues the festival’s rich tradition of working with artists ✍️ Fiona Maddocks bit.ly/4oCfgD4

Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery – there will be blood but what about soul? By creating a ghoulish landscape of reds and blacks, the artist lives up to his superstar billing, but the spectacle never resolves into profundity ✍️ @LauraCummingArt bit.ly/43O0lfx

For @ObsNewReview’s real-life section, @TimAdamsWrites visits the first-ever staging of How It Is, which sees actors recite the novel over six hours. bit.ly/4b10boZ

Roasted roadkill and other delights: meet the UK’s godmother of extreme foraging Mo Wilde spent a year living off food harvested from the land around her home, and is on a mission to shift our thinking about how and what we eat. Do we have the stomachs for it? bit.ly/44r6fU1

Colm Toibin’s The News from Dublin: striking stories of exile and return. The Irish writer’s new collection draws on characters from his Brooklyn universe and offers precise, affecting studies in love and loss. ✍️ Alex Clark bit.ly/4eSYFaN

‘Pab Picasso’ makes a killing at Art Basel, along with Kanye and Bianca. Installations and wallets may vanish but the champagne keeps flowing at the world’s most expensive art fair. ✍️ Lily Isaacs bit.ly/4oFkYEo