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SIR Keir Starmer has warned ministers that a Wes Streeting coup would plunge the UK and Labour into chaos. The beleaguered PM has scrambled to shore up support following a chaotic few days. The
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his job after devastating local election results. Two junior ministers resigned from the government and called for a change in leadership.
After a victory for the far right in municipal elections, Britain's center-left ruling party is in turmoil over whether to replace the unpopular prime minister, Keir Starmer — and with whom.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has the challenge he dared his mutinous party to produce, setting up a potential clash over the future of the United Kingdom and its ruling center-left Labour Party.
Zubir Ahmed, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Care, and Alex Davies-Jones, Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls, expressed similar sentiments as they stepped down. But Starmer maintained to his cabinet members Tuesday morning that he will not resign.
Los bonos del gobierno británico se desplomaron después de que el alcalde de Manchester, Andy Burnham, aseguró una vía para desafiar potencialmente a Keir Starmer por el cargo de primer ministro. Inversores temen que la salida de Starmer podría derivar en una política fiscal más expansiva.
Analysts have slashed the odds of Starmer facing a leadership challenge by September.
By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was struggling to hold on to power after his main rival in the government resigned on Thursday,