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