Starmer Meets Streeting as 80 Labour MPs Push to Oust Him
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Updated · BBC.com · May 12
Starmer Meets Streeting as 80 Labour MPs Push to Oust Him
12 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 12
Wednesday’s Starmer-Streeting meeting comes hours before the King’s Speech, with Downing Street allies arguing the health secretary lacks the 81 Labour backers needed to trigger a formal leadership challenge.
Four ministerial resignations on Tuesday — including Jess Phillips and Streeting ally Zubir Ahmed — deepened the crisis after last week’s poor election results and exposed widening splits inside Labour.
More than 80 MPs have urged Starmer to quit, but over 100 MPs and cabinet allies rallied behind him, while David Lammy said critics should name an alternative if they want him gone.
More than 35 bills are due in the King’s Speech, covering immigration, NHS and police reforms and a route to nationalising British Steel, but Westminster is openly questioning whether Starmer can stay long enough to deliver them.
As his government crumbles, can Keir Starmer survive a showdown with his potential successor?
With Labour in chaos, will promised reforms be the first casualty of this internal party war?
Beyond one leader's fate, do recent election results signal the end of two-party politics in Britain?