Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to resign as junior ministers quit, and Members of Parliament urge him to go. VERBATIM: Four junior ministers have quit in protest as Prime Minister Keir Starmer refuses to heed growing calls to resign. Eighty-Seven members of his own party have resigned from Parliament in protest. Starmer has […]
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Prime Minister Starmer Asked to Resign
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to resign as junior ministers quit, and Members of Parliament urge him to go.
VERBATIM:
Four junior ministers have quit in protest as Prime Minister Keir Starmer refuses to heed growing calls to resign. Eighty-Seven members of his own party have resigned from Parliament in protest.
Starmer has promised to “get on with governing”, defying calls from more than 80 MPs who are urging him to leave imminently or set out a timetable to do so after his Labour Party suffered heavy election losses.
Amid the uncertainty, King Charles III is to give a speech on Wednesday to open the next parliamentary session and outline the government’s plans.
Bernie Bennett reporting.