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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer could look a activity situation arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week aft his Labour Party suffered awesome losses successful Thursday’s section elections.
Labour MP Catherine West told nan BBC that if a Cabinet curate does not situation Starmer by Monday, she will trigger a activity title herself.
West said she was putting nan Cabinet "on notice."
"I’m putting group connected announcement — if I don’t perceive by Monday greeting of immoderate activity hopefuls, I will beryllium asking everybody successful nan Parliamentary Labour Party to put a sanction against my name, because we request to get this shot rolling," she told nan outlet.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer provides an update connected nan Middle East business during a news convention astatine Downing Street successful London connected March 5, 2026. (Tolga Akmen/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"But my preferred action is for nan Cabinet to do a reshuffle wrong itself, wherever there’s plentifulness of talent and for Keir to beryllium fixed a different role, which he mightiness enjoy, possibly an world role, and past for others to travel to nan fore, who tin pass nan message, who are very able, truthful we tin person minimum fuss," she continued.
West, a erstwhile inferior Foreign Office minister, would request support from 20% of Labour MPs — aliases 81 members — to trigger a contest.
She said astir 10 MPs are backing her effort and expressed assurance much would join, according to nan report.
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(left to right) Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a gathering pinch representatives from criminal justness agencies astatine number 10 Downing Street, Westminster, pursuing a panic onslaught successful Golders Green connected Wednesday greeting successful which 2 Jewish men were stabbed. Picture date: Thursday April 30, 2026. (Dan Kitwood/PA Images via Getty Images)
Labour suffered astir 1,400 losses crossed nan U.K. successful this week’s elections, pinch Reform UK making important gains, according to GB News.
Starmer accepted work for nan losses but resisted calls to resign, saying he was "not going to locomotion distant and plunge nan state into chaos."
Still, he has not explicitly ruled retired a managed exit and is expected to reside nan business connected Monday.
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces increasing unit wrong his Labour Party pursuing losses successful section elections. (Kin Cheung/AFP)
As of precocious Friday, 22 Labour MPs had publically called for nan prime curate to measurement down aliases group a timeline for his exit, nan BBC reported.
West did not sanction a preferred replacement.
"I don't person a candidate," she said. "That's portion of nan problem."
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"But I deliberation location are respective group who would for illustration to do it, who have been readying for months, but I'm very amazed that nary of them has popped up coming to opportunity 'I will do it'," she added.
Fox News Digital’s Robert Schmad contributed to this report.
