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MPs to make a direct leadership bid. “I’m not going to sugarcoat this, I thought that the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) party over the last 10 days had a spectacular own goal after those
MPs,” a Labour cabinet minister was quoted as saying. “There is simply not a world in which he doesn’t win the leadership so it must be a coronation – because the last thing we need
MPs to mount a challenge. He urged [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) to stick to the “country first, party second” mantra that Starmer had repeated time and again during the general election campaign. He told
news this morning is full of speculation about whether or not there will be a Labour leadership contest. A better way of explaining the situation might be to say that a leadership contest is already
leadership. Yet the lack of clarity over the now-former health secretary's future had led critics to dub him a "bottler" who had not amassed anywhere near the numbers of MPs to formally launch
leadership would “plunge the country into chaos”. A number of Labour MPs from across the party support Andy Burnham replacing Starmer. However, the Greater Manchester mayor requires a time-consuming and uncertain byelection
Labour’s May election results. It has led to accusations that political reporting has become obsessed with infighting and chaos, treating the coverage of politics as a form of social media entertainment. However, journalists told