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Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

leadership challenge from the Labour backbencher Catherine West would be “completely wrong”. West, a former

Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM, as former minister Catherine West seeks to trigger Labour leadership contest – UK politics live

Labour’s future ahead of the English, Scottish and Welsh elections, which have been terrible for the party, but there is one outcome foreseen by no one: a leadership challenge by **Catherine West

Sarwar says he will 'absolutely' stay on as Labour leader

Labour MP called for cabinet ministers to challenge Starmer's leadership - or she will do it herself Catherine West

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I will, Labour MP tells cabinet

Labour MP Catherine West has said if a cabinet minister does not challenge Sir Keir Starmer as party leader by Monday, she will attempt to trigger a leadership

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

challenge from his MPs next week. Following grim results for [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) in elections on Thursday, former minister Catherine West said that if no cabinet ministers went public by Monday, she would launch

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Catherine West launched a leadership challenge. West, the MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a junior Foreign Office minister until she was sacked in the reshuffle last year, [announced](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/09/may-elections-results-keir-starmer-labour-nigel-farage-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69ff5f818f08f695b7fc0b47#block-69ff5f818f08f695b7fc0b47) that unless

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

leadership challenge from one of his MPs, but how much of a threat does it pose to Sir Keir Starmer? The former minister Catherine West's interview with Radio 4's PM programme immediately raised