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Keir Starmer is showing himself to be combative. The British Prime Minister reiterated on Tuesday that he has no intention of resigning, even as pressure on the Labor leader increases. This morning, one cabinet minister resigned with a request to Starmer to make a plan for his resignation. After a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, some ministers, like Starmer, stated that no formal leadership battle has yet begun, and that the prime minister will therefore remain in office. The newspaper reported prior to the discussion TheTelegraph that six ministers would ask Starmer to leave.
“The country expects us to continue to govern. That is what I do, and what we as a cabinet must do,” Starmer said on Tuesday morning. According to him, no formal procedure has yet been initiated for a leadership change. With this he seems to challenge his competitors. One of these, Health Minister Wes Streeting, attended the cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.
A formal procedure must be supported by at least 20 percent of Labor MPs, which is 81. 78 Labor MPs believe that Starmer should resign or present a plan for his resignation. They made this known through public statements, not through a formal procedure.
Bad election results
The already very shaky position of the British Prime Minister seems to have become untenable after a major defeat in local elections in the United Kingdom. The ruling Labor party lost more than half of the seats it defended in England last week, and for the first time in a century it did not become the largest party in Wales. Reform UK, Nigel Farage’s radical right party, became the largest in England, at the expense of Labor and the Conservative Party.
The financial markets reacted strongly to the political unrest on Tuesday morning, with interest rates on British government debt rising.
