Pressure on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (63) is increasing as a result of Labor’s disappointing results in the local and regional elections. Four of his ministers have already resigned, British media report.
Tessa Van den Bosch
Journalist at HLN
Source: BELGA
LOOK. Starmer does not want to resign
Alex Davies-Jones (Responsible for Victims), Jess Phillips (Violence against Women) and Zubir Ahmed (Health) announced earlier today that they are leaving the Starmer government.
Earlier, Miatta Fahnbulleh, the Minister of Decentralization, Faith and Communities, had also announced her resignation.
“Lost confidence”
In her resignation letter, Davies-Jones calls on the Prime Minister to “act in the best interests of the country” and set a timetable for his departure from Downing Street. “The country has spoken and we must listen,” the minister said.
Phillips, in turn, complains about the lack of necessary changes. “I think you are essentially a good man who cares about the right things. But I have now seen for myself that that is not enough,” she writes in her resignation letter. Finally, Ahmed claims that the British have “irretrievably lost” confidence in Starmer.
LOOK. British Prime Minister calls election results “painful”, but wants to stay in power
Whether Starmer will survive the political storm will depend mainly on support within his own party. According to a count by the website ‘LabourList’, 92 of the 403 MPs have now called on the Prime Minister to resign.
