• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his premiership after almost 80 lawmakers from his governing center-left Labour Party have publicly called for him to resign or set a timetable for his departure.
• A defiant Starmer has defied calls to quit, telling his cabinet that he will “get on with governing.” He noted a formal challenge had not yet been mounted against his leadership, laying down the gauntlet to his potential rivals. Several cabinet members backed Starmer this morning.
• The Labour Party mutiny was spurred by disastrous results in last week’s local elections, which saw it lose more than 1,400 seats in English councils and suffer heavy losses in elections for the Welsh and Scottish parliaments. The hard-right Reform UK party was the main beneficiary of Labour’s slump.
• The crisis looks set to tip Britain back into the political chaos which has defined its last decade. If Starmer chooses to step aside, or is ousted, his successor would become Britain’s sixth prime minister in seven years.
A second British minister has just resigned from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet.
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