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calls for a new parliamentary investigation into whether the prime minister was honest with MPs about the vetting process for Lord Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US. Conservative leader Kemi
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 a revolt among Labour
Starmer has said it's "staggering" that he, as prime minister, was not told about Lord Peter Mandelson failing to pass initial security vetting checks. The prime minister is facing calls to resign over
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 as prime minister. The prime minister is continuing to resist calls to stand down and set a timetable for his departure and is expected to fight any challenge from Burnham or other likely contenders
resign and said he is getting on with the job of prime minister. The number of MPs backing Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership surged following his [triumphant byelection victory in Mankerfield last week
Labour MPs who – with honourable exception – are far more interested in schools and hospitals than frigates. And at the centre, a prime minister who seems not to lead but prevaricates, who lacks the authority
Labour, including self-deprecating ones from the man himself. So while his allies played down the prospect of a bid [as recently as the weekend](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/09/mps-from-labours-left-to-urge-ed-miliband-to-consider-leadership-bid), this was largely in the hope that
Labour. Wes Streeting was in Parliament with his closest advisers mulling whether he should quit the cabinet job as health secretary that he had coveted for years. And that afternoon Angela Rayner slipped into
resign after the [disastrous election results](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/keir-starmer-under-pressure-to-agree-exit-plan-after-election-mauling) for Labour. Brown, the former prime minister and long-serving chancellor under Tony Blair, has been made Starmer’s envoy on global finance, with a brief
Starmer insists he will fight to stay in No 10, the walls seem to be crumbling around him, especially with Thursday’s resignation of the defence secretary, John Healey. Two hundred miles north, most mornings
resignation followed by a leadership fight would signal that the government is losing control of itself while investors are already questioning the country’s fiscal direction. “Markets can cope with ideology of any stripe
Starmer’s future back in focus, amid calls for his resignation by opposition parties. Record-breaking electoral losses will only add to the concerns within Labour. Here is every area with an election
called dual mandates, is to resign from Holyrood just six weeks after winning re-election as a north-east MSP. Badenoch told jubilant party activists: " I cannot tell you how thrilled
MPs have urged him to quit, but he has pledged to cling on. Although no one has so far launched a formal leadership challenge, UK media reported that Health Minister Wes Streeting was preparing
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
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
resign over. Yet Healey’s quiet fury came in the context of the wider argument about how the UK can fund rising defence commitments – including the promise Starmer has vocally made to spend
calls for resignation since his ruling Labour party suffered disastrous local elections. Though Starmer has brushed aside growing criticism, a Labour [contest to replace him](/news/2026/5/15/pressure-mounts-on-embattled-uk-pm-keir-starmer-as-rivals-circle) looks all but inevitable in London. While still
resignation of one of the police officers involved in the arrest, he said: “We want him in prison”. Nick Tenconi, the leader of the UK Independence Party, led a prayer at the demonstration for Nowak