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Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers of his leadership rivals Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. MPs from across the party’s ranks said the prime
Keir Starmer, with some calling for him to resign and others urging him to set out a timetable for his departure. Four ministers, including Home Office Minister Jess Phillips, have resigned. Labour's process
leadership crisis Sir Keir Starmer is holding a crucial cabinet meeting as he fights to stay on as prime minister, less than two years after leading Labour to a landslide election win. It comes amid
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 set of results in this week
Keir Starmer’s crucial speech failed to dispel investor “jitters” in the bond markets over political instability combined with fears of rising inflation. The yield, effectively the interest rate, on the benchmark 10-year
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
Starmer’s leadership, saying he started to break his promises almost as soon as he became leader. “Keir was elected on a bunch of things he immediately reneged on,” she said. “He does not have
leadership. "Not an immediate departure but a planned, orderly and open transition and an open and transparent contest." Several Welsh Labour MPs have told BBC Wales that they were not expecting a challenge
Keir Starmer faced a threat to his leadership, his core team [assembled in the cabinet room](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/how-the-downing-street-machine-ensured-starmer-survived-to-fight-another-day) and persuaded ministers to fire off a succession of supportive tweets in an attempt to keep
Keir Starmer faces a fight for his political life in the next 24 hours as potential [Labour leadership rivals](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/10/starmer-faces-perilous-24-hours-streeting-readying-leadership-bid) from Wes Streeting to Angela Rayner position themselves for a contest. 2. ***Iran
challenge failed to materialise. However, his authority with Labour MPs remains weak. Each new resignation attempts to undermine his position. For now, Starmer remains in charge by default. For today’s First Edition, I spoke
Keir Starmer in Downing Street as an ally of the health secretary renewed calls for the prime minister to resign, saying his authority had “irretrievably ebbed away”. Streeting arrived in No 10 on Wednesday morning
Keir Starmer to cabinet ministers after Tuesday's cabinet meeting and an offer Streeting took up. It was a very short meeting - under 20 minutes - and we may not know what happened in Number
Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) is looking for a saviour to keep him in No 10 after the May elections and the scandal of the Mandelson saga, there is an unlikely figure in the north
Keir Starmer is set to face his cabinet as more than 80 Labour MPs have called for him to resign, following the party’s devastating local elections losses last week. The cabinet is said
Keir Starmer’s speech and press conference on Monday morning was almost universally billed as his final chance to save his premiership. Was it enough? And what – if anything – did he actually offer
leadership contest or a timetable for Keir’s departure that undermines the party’s position, but we recognise that when the mood is febrile things can kick off,” one said. “We wouldn’t be thanked
Keir Starmer a good prime minister, I ask Welsh First Minister Morgan? There's a tiny, but telling pause, before her more diplomatic than enthusiastic answer. "He's helped us in Wales." She then talks
Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions this week by the independent MP for Dewsbury and Batley, Iqbal Mohamed. Starmer said the work would be undertaken by another team as part of a restructuring. However
Keir Starmer will not lead his party into the next general election, Labour-supporting unions have predicted, in an intervention that threatens to further destabilise the prime minister after a damaging few days