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Ex-minister tells UK cabinet to boot Starmer or she’ll challenge him herself
May 9, 2026
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, reeling from a crushing local election defeat, faced a new setback to his leadership on Saturday when a former minister said she would challenge him for the top job if no one else stepped forward. Starmer’s Labour Party recorded the worst losses of a governing party in municipal polls since 1995, prompting a growing number of his own lawmakers to call on him to quit.
To try to shore up his position in the party earlier on Saturday, he named two influential...
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