'We need to move quickly', says Labour MP seeking to challenge PM

Catherine West says she is ready to challenge Keir Starmer but minister Bridget Phillipson backs the PM and warns against infighting.

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.

Starmer vows to stay on after local elections deliver losses for Labour

Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain's prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labour party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties. Thursday's ballots – Starmer's biggest electoral test since Labour ousted the Conservatives in 2024 – left the British leader under intense pressure after the party suffered a historic mauling in its Welsh heartlands.

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Local elections live: Starmer defies Labour MP’s leadership threat with revival plan for closer EU ties

Former junior minister Catherine West has warned she will attempt to trigger a leadership contest if a cabinet minister does not challenge Sir Keir

By David Maddox,Nicole Wootton-Cane and Dan Haygarth

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

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.