Keir Starmer's cunning plan just backfired. The real fireworks will come for the PM on Wednesday

This cunning plan, however, may have backfired. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say MPs staying out in the real country, talking to real people, seeing real election results – may strengthen their resolve that the Prime Minister’s time is up.Throughout today, the numbers calling for Starmer to go have ticked up, triggered initially by the self-appointed Sir Graham Brady of the Labour Party, Catherine West – whose hokey-cokey leadership bid has transmorphed into a resignation petition.The detail on the numbers remains complicated. As I write this, GB News's tracker shows 60 Labour MPs have called on the Prime Minister to resign, with three declaring in the last hour alone. Unlike in the Conservative Party, there is no threshold of letters to trigger a no-confidence vote. LATEST DEVELOPMENTSThe PM's great reset just led to his total ruination. Call him Captain Backfire - Carole MaloneKeeping Tommy Robinson away from the Oxford Union would be bad for Islam and Britain - Rakib EhsanThe Greens are now the largest party in my council - and their manifesto is mad - Arthur ReynoldsBut the number 81 does carry symbolic weight because that is the number of nominations any Labour MP needs to launch a contest against the Prime Minister. If 81 Labour MPs declare against Sir Keir, a stalking horse challenger such as Catherine West has much more moral authority to reissue the threat to force a contest if Keir Starmer were to refuse to resign.The number 81 also carries significant weight in real terms, too. It’s coincidentally close to the number of rebels it takes to wipe away Labour’s significant Commons majority – 83. Reaching that threshold would symbolise just how difficult it will be for Sir Keir to govern, having lost the confidence of an absolute majority of the House of Commons.We have also just seen the first three frontbench resignations, albeit from the most junior rank on the payroll, the parliamentary private secretary. We’ve seen this show before. It feels as if the Rubicon has now been crossed. Whispers in Westminster expect junior ministerial resignations as soon as this evening. It appears that the Prime Minister simply didn’t do enough in his speech this morning.Perhaps there were no words he could utter to save his position after his universal drubbing across the country last week. He was under fire from all sides, retreating on all fronts – across much of the country with Reform, the urban left with the Greens, and the Nationalists in Scotland and Wales.Everything is moving exceptionally quickly now. Prorogation of Parliament may, however, delay the true fireworks until Wednesday – once the new session is opened by the King. It could be drip, drip, drip until then. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter