While British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is swearing up and down he won’t resign after the Labour Party’s disasterous showing in council elections, a whole lot of Labour MPs are calling for him to step down. From the Mirror‘s running updates:
Keir Starmer teeters on the brink as Cabinet splits emerge on PM’s future
Keir Starmer’s premiership is hanging in the balance as Cabinet ministers warned him his time was up amid an explosive Labour revolt.
Splits emerged in his top team as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was said to be among several ministers who told the Prime Minister to consider setting out a timetable for his departure. Deputy PM David Lammy and Chief Whip Johnny Reynolds were at the PM’s side as he weighed his options, but did not call for him to go.
Housing Secretary Steve Reed and Attorney General Lord Hermer were among those urging the PM to fight on, the Mirror understands.
Jonathan Hinder, Labour MP for Pendle and Clitheroe, has joined the growing number of MPs calling for Sir Keir Starmer to resign, adding that the Prime Minister “has never been an electoral asset”.Speaking on BBC’s Newsnight, Mr Hinder said: “The blunt reality is, and every single Labour MP will tell you this, he has never been an electoral asset.“Our best electoral asset was the unpopularity of the Conservatives and the fact that Reform split their vote.”
Gordon McKee says Starmer ‘has lost the confidence’ of the public
Gordon McKee, who is MP for Glasgow South, has tweeted: “I’m deeply sad that we’re in this position and proud of what Keir Starmer achieved reforming the Labour Party.
“However, the message in Glasgow and across the country in last week’s elections was clear; the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the public.”
Yay think? The entirety of the Muslim rape gang-friendly Labour Party has lost that confidence.
Those names we listed just now as the purported new ministerial aides have replaced those have quit today.
They include Joe Morris and Tom Rutland, who served as parliamentary secretaries to Wes Streeting and Emma Reynolds respectively.
Scores of Labour MPs calling for Keir Starmer to stand down following a disastrous set of local election results.
Sayeth Wikipedia: “A parliamentary secretary is a member of parliament in the Westminster system who assists a more senior minister with their duties.”
Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green & Moseley, has tweeted to call on Keir Starmer to step down.
He said the election results show “party in crisis” and claimed Labour is “coasting without a real vision”.
Maureen Burke, the Labour MP for Glasgow North East, has joined the growing number of discontented MPs calling for Sir Keir Starmer to step down, saying her party is “bigger than one person”.
In a statement posted on X on Monday evening, she said: “When I see communities like mine, in Glasgow North East, turn against the Labour Party in such numbers, we must seek to understand why and refocus our efforts to win back their trust.”Despite two decades of SNP failure, people were reluctant to give Labour a hearing and told me that they could not, in good faith, vote Labour while Keir Starmer is Prime Minister.
Sarah Hall, MP for Warrington South, tweeted that last week’s election results “were devastating for our party.”
“Across the country and our region, we lost hardworking Labour representatives who dedicated themselves to their communities and to the values our movement was founded on,” she said. “Voters delivered a clear message. They feel disconnected from the current leadership and frustrated that progress is not happening quickly enough.”
She continued: “A pattern of poor decisions and unforced errors has created a growing sense of distance between the government and the people I was elected to serve.
“We cannot respond to this moment with another reset, another relaunch or more rhetoric.
Those are just a few quotes. The Mirror‘s current count has at least 75 Labour MPs calling for Starmer’s ouster from Number 10 Downing Street. While far short of a majority, it does show that there seems to be no fear of of declaring opposition to Starmer, which suggests he’s in a perilously weak position. And in truth, it’s hard to think of any leaders bouncing back from such an electoral disaster.
To quote a Peter Gabriel-era Genesis song, “More opened ears and opened eyes/And soon they dared to laugh.”
