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How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Many Labour MPs believe [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) will not survive as Labour leader for long enough to fight the next election. What they cannot agree on, however – even after a disastrous

Analysis: Has Starmer done enough to save his premiership?

resigned three weeks later. For Sir Keir's speech, there weren't many MPs there and no cabinet ministers. The party chair Anna Turley and Labour's deputy leader Lucy Powell were sitting

Starmer tells MPs to ‘fight together’ before critical day for his premiership

MPs, many of whom have been dismayed by the [Guardian’s revelation](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) that Mandelson was installed as ambassador despite failing security vetting, Starmer addressed the parliamentary party before the vote. “I have

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

Many of those calling for Starmer to set out an “orderly” timetable to resign were would-be Burnham supporters, even though an imminent contest would benefit existing MPs. The latest to call for Starmer

'Crisis in Great Britain!' Global media reacts to Starmer's fight for survival

resign, rebellion is growing among Labour MPs, who seem only to be hesitating over a timetable for launching a challenge procedure and internal election," writes Arnaud de La Grange. UK political turmoil is not receiving

Analysis: Many Labour MPs are blaming the boss for elections body blow

resign or attach a sell by date to his premiership. Let's see if that is a position that becomes contagious. There are no shortage of Labour MPs who say it is the prime minister

Could Starmer bring back Rayner to steady ship – and would she get onboard?

MPs that a change of direction is afoot. Since she was forced to resign last September because of the underpayment of stamp duty on a flat, Rayner has walked a line between loyalty and interventionism

Chris Mason: PM confronts his most difficult day as party revolts

Starmer's cabinet is split on the most fundamental political question a government's top table of ministers can ever wrestle with: whether the prime minister should carry on. Clearly, a cabinet split on this

Starmer vows to fight on as PM despite heavy local election losses for Labour

many at the hands of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Starmer struck a defiant note on Friday morning in the face of calls from some of his MPs to quit, insisting he remained as determined

PM's ex-chief of staff says he doesn't recognise claims about his behaviour

Starmer's chief of staff. Speaking at security conference in Ukraine, McSweeney said he found it "strange reading about a character with the same name as mine sometimes", as he spoke publicly for the first

Keir Starmer's party lost big in U.K. local elections. Here's what comes next.

wanted to represent them in their local area. However, they were also sending a message to the ruling Labour party about how they feel the country is being run. ### **Starmer plans to continue** Starmer took

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit

wanted to see the PM resign. At Monday lunchtime, the co-chair of the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) Growth Group, Chris Curtis, once considered a loyalist group, said Starmer could not deliver the change

PM admits No 10 asked about job for aide Matthew Doyle

Starmer has confirmed conversations took place about a potential diplomatic role for his senior aide Matthew Doyle. The ex-communications chief was made a Labour peer after leaving Downing Street in March

Keir Starmer to face crucial cabinet meeting as ministers and MPs urge him to resign – UK politics live

MPs who were coming out and calling for Starmer’s resignation and, after his speech in the morning, the numbers started to escalate. Here is [the LabourList one](https://labourlist.org/2026/05/labourlist-labour-mp-starmer-resignation-tracker/);

Starmer could have been told about Mandelson’s vetting failure, claims No 10 with release of briefing paper – UK politics live

resignation. It seems unlikely that by 6pm tonight that will have changed. But many or most of them were already of the view that he is not the right person to lead them into

Unhappy Labour MPs aren't ready to oust Starmer yet

many MPs would be reluctant to do this. As one of them put it: "We have to be sure that when there is a contest we can have a candidate who can lead

Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next

Starmer's premiership has never looked more vulnerable as growing numbers of his own MPs call on him to stand down after a disastrous set of election results. The prime minister has vowed to fight

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Starmer? The former minister Catherine West's interview with Radio 4's PM programme immediately raised eyebrows around Westminster. Plenty of Labour MPs from across the party have told us they didn

Tuesday briefing: Starmer’s ‘last chance’ speech and the possible challengers to his premiership

wanted.” “The one we are all watching today is health secretary, Wes Streeting,” he says. “Andy Burnham isn’t in parliament, and Angela Rayner still has [tax issues](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/angela-rayners-allies-say-hmrc-inquiry-set-to-be-resolved-before-may-elections) and doesn’t seem

Digested week: King bites his tongue as a president indulges his fantasies | John Crace

MPs can also do without. Though it seems that some journalists can’t. When the gunman tried to kill the president at the White House correspondents dinner last weekend, most people ducked under the table