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Guido Fawkes10 May 2026

Phillipson Admits Labour’s “Shortcomings” But Insists Starmer Will Still Be PM at Election

An exasperated Bridget Phillipson speaking to Laura Kuenssberg: “We’ve had a real kicking. Keir knows that, I know that… I’m not going to come on here and say that there aren’t big and serious national issues that we have to address. We can, and we will. But I just do not believe that the message…

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Express Politics10 May 2026

Keir Starmer 'loses the plot' as Labour civil war explodes - Monday deadline

The Prime Minister is facing mounting pressure to resign after a disastrous set of elections, with MPs urged to back a leadership challenge.

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Guido Fawkes10 May 2026

Catherine West: “We Have a Problem, We Have to Move Quickly”

Labour MP Catherine West on Sky News: “What I want the Cabinet to do is to close themselves into a room today and come up with somebody who they can all get behind, which would mean we wouldn’t have to have a leadership election.  “And if that can happen, then we can have a very…

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Sky News Politics10 May 2026

Keir Starmer’s defences: Has the dam broken?

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The Guardian Politics10 May 2026

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

Focus group sceptical that replacing Keir Starmer would improve party’s fortunes, with some drawn to Reform or the Greens UK politics – live As Keir Starmer faces the prospect of a leadership challenge, former Labour voters in a Birmingham constituency were last week feeling nervous about what could come next. A month ago, the group from Birmingham Yardley had very little good to say about the prime minister, comparing him to a rat or a donkey. They said they felt he had let them down. Contin

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The Guardian Politics10 May 2026

Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM, as former minister Catherine West seeks to trigger Labour leadership contest – UK politics live

MP says that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by tomorrow that she will Good morning. There were many predictions for Labour’s future ahead of the English, Scottish and Welsh elections, which have been terrible for the party, but there is one outcome foreseen by no one: a leadership challenge by Catherine West. West, MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a junior Foreign Office minister until she was sacked in the reshuffle last year, announced yesterday afternoon that,

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Express Politics10 May 2026

Labour's 2026 election wipeout mapped as Reform make huge gains - check your area

Nearly one in four of the 17 million votes went in favour of Reform UK.

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BBC Politics10 May 2026

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Downing Street is trying to ignore the challenge from a former minister, but it has raised eyebrows around Westminster.

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BBC Politics10 May 2026

Is Starmer's leadership under serious threat?

Downing Street is trying to ignore the challenge from a former minister, but it has raised eyebrows around Westminster.

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BBC Politics9 May 2026

How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories

The first-past-the-post system favoured Reform in this English local elections

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BBC Politics9 May 2026

How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories

The first-past-the-post system favoured Reform in this English local elections

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Express Politics9 May 2026

The 37 MPs calling on Keir Starmer to step down after election humiliation

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister from all corners of his party.

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