British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on despite calls to quit elections stating that his government was a “10-year project”, after his party’s drubbing in local elections earlier this week.
Starmer’s Labour Party recorded the worst losses of a governing party in local elections in more than three decades, prompting a growing number of lawmakers to call for his removal.
A former minister in Starmer’s government said she would seek the backing of other lawmakers to trigger a leadership contest unless his cabinet took steps to remove him by Monday.
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In an interview session on Sunday, when asked whether he would lead his Labour Party into the next general election and serve a full second term, Starmer responded: “Yes, I will. I’m not going to walk away from the job I was elected to do in July 2024. I’m not going to plunge the country into chaos.”
A REAL KICKING
So far, Starmer’s cabinet has stayed loyal to the prime minister, despite Thursday’s election losses.
Bridget Phillipson, the education minister, said she was confident the prime minister could turn things around, revealing that Starmer would set out a “fresh direction” for Britain in a speech on Monday.
“We got a real kicking from the voters, there’s no escaping that,” she said of Labour’s performance in the elections. “We have to reflect seriously on that.”
If he were still in office at the end of a second five-year term, he would be the third-longest-serving continuous leader in Britain in the last two centuries after Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
