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Labour MPs press to end leadership speculation, some call for Starmer to go

politicsMay 12, 202623229

Rachael Maskell MP publicly urged a timetable to resolve Labour's leadership questions and called for Sir Keir Starmer to step down. Financial markets reacted negatively to Sir Keir Starmer's latest reset, increasing pressure on the party by eroding investor confidence. Opponents insist that swapping the leader will not fix deeper faults such as Brexit red lines and Labour's perceived elitism, so the contest will decide whether the party changes policy or merely replaces personalities.

Tory Fibs
@toryfibs.bsky.social

The latest on Starmer’s position: • 5 Frontbenchers have resigned • 4 Cabinet Ministers have told Starmer to lay out plans to leave • 77 Labour MPs publicly call for the same • 81+ Labour MPs privately sign Catherine West’s letter (with overlap Cabinet meets tomorrow.

2690d ago
angels4peace.bsky.social2

The Front bench are all Zionists. The whole party need to stop being ‘Friends of Israel’

Dan Sohege
@danielsohege.bsky.social

If I hadn't quit gambling I would put money on Starmer being gone, effectively, by the end of the week.

Four Labour MPs quit as ministerial aides and call for Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister More than 60 MPs have now publicly urged Starmer either to resign immediately or set out a timetable for his departure
3290d ago
Guy Shrubsole
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit ('Timetable to quit' & 'orderly transition' = code for 'let Andy Burnham run') www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

2690d ago
Richard K Broughton6

But who comes after Burnham, when the relentless malign actors, bot machines and right-wing meme generators turn the facebook-radicalised 'patriots' against him within 2 years?!

Phil Dickinson3

I want to scream at these MP's and say - get on with running the country, support each other,in the middle of a historic shift in global economics and power arguing with each other. Who is playing you? You are squandering your mandate Putin/Farage laughing all the way.

Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination
@shoshanade.bsky.social

#LisaNandy is one of the biggest disappointments in this cabinet🤨. She and #ShabanaMahmood are the worst of the worst🤬 I sincerely hope #KeirStarmer kicks them to the curb in an imminent reshuffle!!! He shld give Nandy’s role to #DarrenPJones and DavidLammy shld do HomeSec (to be useful for once🙄)

1790d ago
Political Cartoon Gallery
@politicalcartoon.bsky.social

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on the challenges to Starmer’s premiership #KeirStarmer #LabourLeadership @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

1690d ago
Mr RobertBob
@mrrobertbob.bsky.social

3 more Labour MPs call for Starmer to go. Consensus on his speech appears to be variations on ’thin gruel’ (Beth Rigby, Sky News). I‘m not sure that the Labour party quite understands that it’s their policies and red lines that need to change not simply their leader.

1991d ago
AZ Intel
@azintel.bsky.social

Four ministerial aides quit as more than 60 Labour MPs call for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. - BBC

1390d ago
Duncan Poundcake
@duncanpoundcake.bsky.social

#Starmer The vulture are circling... Two Labour MPs quit as ministerial aides and call for Keir Starmer to resign - BBC News share.google/xSRZfpvam48j...

990d ago
Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen
@kevbro1969.bsky.social

#Labour are full of deluded liars. They'll get rid of shitshow #Starmer & probably continue in much the same manner.

490d ago
Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@paulsandars.bsky.social

80 Labour MPs now call for Starmer to stand down.

790d ago
Gays Of Bluesky
@gaysof.bsky.social

WE DESERVE LEADERS WHO STAND FOR WORKERS, MIGRANTS, AND THE PLANET; NOT EMPTY SLOGANS AND ANTI-IMMIGRANT DOG WHISTLES. IF KEIR STARMER WANTS TO LEAD, HE MUST EMBRACE RADICAL CHANGE, HOUSING FOR ALL, TRANS RIGHTS, AND CLIMATE JUSTICE. #KEIRSTARMER #R4TODAY #BRITISHPOLITICS

690d ago
Geoff Berner
@geoffberner.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy

It's pretty fun watching Peter, "Epstein my best pal" Mandelson's Keir Starmer project unravel. Let's not forget that. Starmer was Mandelson's boy. He, more than any other single person, made him PM. And soon, God willing, Mandelson will be in prison, and Starmer will be looking for work. #ukpol […]

490d ago
B heard media 💚🇵🇸
@bheardmedia.bsky.social

Labour MP Clive Lewis speaks for many when he said Keir Starmer needs to "understand that it is over! "I would argue and listening to people on the doorstep, one of the worse Labour Governments we have ever had!" #StarmersBritain 🇬🇧✂️📈 #KeirStarmer 🤮 #NotOnOurSide ⬅️ #StarmerOut ✅️

490d ago
Glenn Vowles
@enviroman.bsky.social

Public ownership of steel but not for water, energy, mail, all of rail shows a lack of strategic vision & awareness. #KeirStarmer thinks he gave a speech this morning to show he gets it and will change but he only confirms he hasn't. He is an incrementalist & managerialist.

Screenshot of the BBC news online headline 'British Steel nationalisation plans announced by Starmer' (with a photo of steelmaking).
790d ago
Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈
@squeakysquirrel.bsky.social

It didn't do the Tories any good to keep changing the leader. #UKPolitics #Starmer #Labour

X The Spectator Index @spectatorindex. Follow X ITV journalist Robert Peston reports that British MP Catherine Westis preparing to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership Of the Labour Party.
790d ago
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theguardian.comUK borrowing costs jump and pound falls as Starmer faces pressure to stand down – business livekillbait.comAnalysing Keir Starmer’s Challenges as Labour Leader After Election Setbackrachaelmaskell.comLabour Statement | Rachael Maskell MP - Rachael Maskell - Labour and Co-operative MP for York Central

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