The UK Prime Minister has acknowledged catastrophic losses in last week’s local election, but vowed to stay in office.
At least 70 Labour MPs are demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer resign, Sky News reported on Monday. This comes after the party came out as the biggest loser in last week’s local elections, relinquishing more than 1,300 council seats across the country.
In addition to dozens of lawmakers calling for Starmer to go, at least three junior members of his government have so far resigned from their positions, Sky News reported.
Under Labour rules, a formal leadership challenge would require backing by at least 81 party MPs, a fifth of the party’s total roster in the House of Commons. Former foreign secretary and Labour MP Catherine West announced that she’s gathering support to kickstart the process and elect a new leader by September.
“The results last Thursday show that the PM has failed to inspire hope,” she wrote on X. “What is best for the party and country now is for an orderly transition.”
In a speech earlier on Monday, Starmer admitted that there was “no sugarcoating” the scale of the defeat suffered by Labour but vowed to stay in office and claw back support. He promised to rebuild the UK’s relationship with the EU and to make Britain “fairer.”
Starmer has sunk in the approval polls since his party’s landslide victory in the 2024 general election. The decline followed deeply unpopular austerity measures, the resurfacing of the historical Pakistani rape gang scandal, and government response to the 2024 anti-immigration protests and riots – which sparked allegations of “two-tier” justice after hundreds of British citizens were arrested for social media posts.
The Labour government has also lost left-wing voters by designating the pro-Palestinian protest group ‘Palestine Action’ a terrorist organization.
Half of Britons want Starmer to step down, while only 29% want him to remain in office, according to a YouGov poll published on Monday that surveyed 4,904 UK adults.
Euroskeptic, anti-immigrant Reform UK has emerged as the biggest winner in the local elections, taking more than 1,200 local council seats across the country. “Betrayed voters have left Labour for good,” party leader Nigel Farage said on X on Monday.
These c**** only got 30% of the vote in the first place, they all need to resign.
There is no doubt that these politicians are controlled by something much greater than the fear of not being re-elected..
It beggars belief that our own New Zealand Labour party who borrowed some $66 billion and there is still some $30 billion accounted. That alone should trigger a police investigation. Mr hunt you you down Hipkins and jab you is still pushing that in the hope he will gain financial reward as Ardern achieved. Disappointed in people wanting him to give any chance to force get us into more debt..
Starmer is finished. He is a complete nonsense of a man. Corrupt to the core by his handlers. Arresting people for posting truthful comments on social media. New Zealanders, may face, the same situation under the proposed stalking act.
I see minor parties on the right gaining popularity because Nationals policy is to leave the general public without enough money to live on and business is in depression at the edge of total collapse. Over taxation and regulation has not been addressed sufficiently.
Social redistribution of wealth after 3 years in relationship is at the core. Preventing a stable safe environment for families to prosper. Eventually all falling back to the state for financial assistance. Given the 1.5% birthrare, people are walking away from creating family to safeguard themselves from entrapment and financiall ruin.
New Zealand is an unworkable place to live. The number of people who have left NZ is unsustainable. Vast numbers of empty dwellings is the reason why your property has devalued and the bank is getting awkward.
Taxation isn’t enough to cover expenditure because there isn’t enough people in NZ.
Luxon is has failed to make this country a productive workable place to live. He needs to stepdown now.
The problem strictly speaking isn’t Starmer, its the fact the UK Labour party, like its NZ equivalent, is infested with globalists, who only care about the needs of a small group of elites, at the expense of everyone else.