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Labour MPs ‘in talks to demand Keir Starmer's resignation’: Report

Labour backbenchers from the 2024 intake plotted a letter on Tuesday blaming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for expected local-election losses and urging him to set a departure date.
Echoing a 2006 letter by Labour MPs that forced Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign, the plot emerges amid rumors of leadership tilts by Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, or Andy Burnham.
Analysis shows Sir Keir participated in just 11 campaign visits over the past two months, with critics describing his image as a "vote loser" and "toxic" among voters.
Communities Secretary Steve Reed dismissed reports as "absolute nonsense," though allies of Rayner believe she could secure 81 MPs required to launch a formal leadership challenge.
Rayner is reportedly weighing a potential challenge in the 72 hours following the polls, potentially sparking internal infighting that Sir Keir warned against in the Observer last weekend.

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Labour plotter Tom Watson begs MPs to stop plot to oust Starmer

Under Jeremy Corbyn, Tom Watson was the deputy leader of the Labour Party. Notoriously, he used his position to plot with other members of the Labour right to prevent his own party from forming a government. Now, the exact same guy is begging Labour MPs to drop the plot to oust Keir Starmer: Just @Tom_Watson, the Palintir minion, asking Labour MPs not to do what he, the Labour right and their zionist friends spent all of 2015-19 trying to do – …

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Daily Mirror

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2 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Die Presse

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The local and regional elections on Thursday threaten to become a serious slump for Labour. Nationalists and populists score. Is the Prime Minister facing resignation?

2 days ago·Vienna, Austria

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Keir Starmer ‘resolute’ amid expected leadership challenges after elections

Voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, as well as for local councils across England.

2 days ago·Worcester, United Kingdom

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Yorkshire Post

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Starmer and Labour face decimation in local elections as leadership rivals eye No10

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2 days ago·Leeds, United Kingdom

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Irish Independent

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Backbench MPs ‘plot to oust Keir Starmer after local elections’

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