A Labour mutiny is gathering pace after the party’s disaster local election results – with dozens of MPs mounting pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to resign.
The Prime Minister today vowed to stay in his role for another eight years, insisting he is at the beginning of a ’10-year-project of renewal’.
In a desperate bid to save his premiership he wheeled out Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman back into government yesterday.
Backbencher Catherine West threatened to launch a ‘stalking horse’ leadership bid in the morning unless the Cabinet acted – with No10 nervous anger is so great she could get the 81 nominations required to spark a vote.
It follows Labour’s loss of more than 1,100 English council seats this week as Reform and the Greens seized huge chunks of the party’s heartlands.
The thing that’s on everyone’s minds…
Everyone is wondering whether Labour backbencher Catherine West will get the backing of the 81 MPs needed to force a leadership vote.
In a bombshell intervention last night, Ms West hatched a plan to oust the Prime Minister by putting herself forward as a ‘stalking horse’ candidate.
Running for the Labour Party leadership with little to no chance of winning, she hopes to test the waters for another, stronger challenger.
The plot has divided opinion within the party but Downing Street sources appear to be adamant Ms West won’t get the 81 signatories required to challenge Sir Keir.
Ms West revealed she will go public with a leadership coup on Monday if the Cabinet hasn’t moved against the Prime Minister by her deadline.
Who is Catherine West?
Ms West was first elected to parliament in 2015 as the Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green
She was quickly promoted to the Labour front benches by Jeremy Corbyn andis a member of the left-wing socialist Fabian Society
Ms West was apppointed as the parliamentary under-secretary in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, serving under David Lammy in 2024
She was born in Australia, is 59-years-old and a mother-of-two
READ: Clueless Starmer vows to be PM for another EIGHT YEARS
Sir Keir Starmer has made an astonishing new vow today in the aftermath of this week’s ‘disaster’ local elections.
The premier has assured everyone he will be leading the Labour party for another eight years.
You can read the full report by UK political editor James Tapsfield below.
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