Electioncast: Could Catherine West Really Bring Down Keir Starmer?

The Labour MP says she’ll challenge the PM’s leadship if cabinet members don’t move first

Starmer Vows to Serve 10 Years But May Face Challenge in Days - Bloomberg.com

Starmer Vows to Serve 10 Years But May Face Challenge in Days  Bloomberg.com

Starmer grabs chance to fight for survival as calls to resign escalate

Prime minister aims to win back younger voters who deserted Labour in this week’s local elections

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privately Many Labour MPs believe Keir Starmer will not survive as Labour leader for long enough to fight the next election. What they cannot agree on, however – even after a disastrous set of results in this week’s elections – is how his departure might come about. The Labour rulebook makes it notoriously difficult to unseat a party leader: none has been formally ejected in the postwar period, ...

By Kiran Stacey and Alexandra Topping

Labour MP puts Cabinet 'on notice,' threatens to trigger leadership challenge against Starmer by Monday

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a potential Labour leadership challenge after the party suffered major losses in Thursday's local elections.

Scottish independence calls grow after Labour losses shake Starmer’s leadership

Fresh demands for a second Scottish independence referendum have intensified after Labour’s heavy election losses across the UK, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. With the Scottish National Party claiming a sweeping victory in Scotland and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK surging south of the border, SNP figures said the results showed the urgent need for Scotland to break away from Westminster.

By FRANCE24

What happens if Catherine West pulls the trigger on a leadership challenge?

Sir Keir Starmer is facing increasing calls to resign over Labour’s election losses

By Athena Stavrou

Labour MP puts Cabinet 'on notice,' threatens to trigger leadership challenge against Starmer by Monday

Harry Potter author JK Rowling slams Starmer over Harriet Harman’s women adviser role amid trans row

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By TOI World Desk

Will there be a Labour leadership election?

Is this it? If Catherine West does not withdraw her threat to trigger a leadership election on Monday then events will gain momentum of their own thanks to the relentless logic of the Labour party rule book. The floor will be thrown open to all comers to put their names forward and seek, like West, …

By Ethan Croft

UK's Starmer vows to fight on, calls govt a ‘10-year project’ after election setback

Starmer's Labour Party recorded the worst losses of a governing party in local elections in more than three decades

Reform surge signals tectonic shift in British politics

There were municipal and regional elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week in which the Labour government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer were clobbered by Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Starmer is now under pressure to resign but since when do UK prime ministers resign because of local election results? As the Chinese proverb […]

Challenge Starmer's leadership by Monday or I'll do it myself, Labour MP tells colleagues

Catherine West claimed to have the backing of 10 MPs for her initiative, well short of the 81 needed to mount a challenge.