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Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM as Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest – UK politics live


Former junior minister Catherine West says that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by Monday, she will

On the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Sharon Graham, the Unite general secretary, said Labour was at risk of becoming “extinct”. It abandoned the working class, and the working class then chose to abandon Labour. Labour needed “a completely different economic direction and political direction”, she said.

At the end of the interview Trevor Phillips asked Phillipson if she thought Starmer would lead the party into the next election, and if she wanted him to.

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Publish date : 2026-05-10 08:13:00

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