Keir Starmer tells cabinet he is not resigning and leadership challenge has not been triggered
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with his Cabinet, declaring he intends to stay in office despite mounting calls from within the Labour Party for him to step down.
- Labour has been plunged into panic following heavy losses in local elections across England, Scotland, and Wales last week, reflecting increasing fragmentation of British politics long dominated by Labour and the Conservatives.
- Junior minister Miatta Fahnbulleh stepped down on Tuesday, urging Starmer "to do the right thing for the country" and claiming the government lacked the vision promised to voters.
- More than 70 Labour backbenchers have called for Starmer to stand down, though a leadership challenge requires support from 81 House of Commons lawmakers—a threshold not yet triggered.
- Discontent stems from policy U-turns and the controversial appointment of Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as British ambassador to Washington, though Starmer vowed to "face up to the big challenges.
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Starmer defies calls to quit as cabinet minister resigns
Keir Starmer is fighting his colleagues’ attempts to topple him. The cabinet met on Tuesday morning and loyalists came out afterwards saying they back him to stay. However, there have been calls from more than 80 Labour MPs for him to quit, a ministerial resignation this morning, and cabinet ministers have privately advised Keir Starmer to consider his position. But he is refusing to make it easy, daring his opponents to stand up and formally ch…
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Sir Keir Starmer insists he won't quit as Prime Minister in latest cabinet meeting
Sir Keir Starmer has assured the nation he will not resign from his role as Prime Minister despite pressure mounting for him to quit.
Labour minister pledges ‘we will stop the chaos’ after crunch Cabinet meeting
Baroness Chapman has pledged Labour “will stop the chaos” after a crunch Cabinet meeting with the embattled Keir Starmer. The International Development minister told GB News’s Katherine Forster outside No10 the Prime Minister was “doing a very good job”.She insisted: “He is leading the Cabinet this morning. He's making decisions about the country. “He's putting the people of the country first and not the psychodrama that we could take the opport…
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