Keir Starmer has announced he will stand down as prime minister after days of intense pressure from Labour MPs, including cabinet ministers, following the return of Andy Burnham to Westminster.
Less than two years after a historic election victory, Starmer had faced calls from his MPs to set out a timeline for his departure, with many of them unnerved by the threat from Nigel Farage’s party before the next general election.
Starmer’s decision to announce his departure will now start a race among Labour MPs to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in 10 years, with Burnham in pole position to win. If he is uncontested, he could be in Downing Street within weeks.
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Lexam@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 57d
Lasted longer than Liz Cabbage.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 57d
Lettuce
Gladaed@feddit.org · 9 pts · 57d
Great point. A cabbage can last for months
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 57d
She was a cabbage though.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 7 pts · 57d
But they shouldn't have
Gladaed@feddit.org · 37 pts · 57d
Labor didn't win due to popularity but due to fptp and a split right wing vote. And they slid right hard. One must not be overly hopeful, lest they'll be disappointed.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 13 pts · 56d
What the heck is going on with British PMs? There have been like 50 in the last 5 years it feels like. One of which killed the Queen singlehandedly before retiring after just a week in office or smth
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56d
They’ve all been shit, but there’s a mechanism to get rid of them, which, in theory, is a good thing?
treehugger6@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 57d
He is awaited in the Hague
eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip · -11 pts · 57d
He dared to criticise Israel and call for aid to be delivered to Palestinians, so he's being removed and a Z**ist installed instead
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 56d
Starmer is an authoritarian Zionist whore who labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and arrested journalists. He gaslit and used fake "antisemitism" to stop people from speaking about the genocide.
Fuck Kid Starver.
eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 56d
Not sure about his individual role in those things.
He did recognise Palestine as a state and called out the awful conditions there
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce800enrglzo
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 56d
Recognising Palestine is an empty gesture that has done nothing to stop the Zionist extermination campaign in Gaza or the pogroms and settlements in the West Bank.
Starmer did nothing to sanction or pressure Israel and was on the record supporting the siege of Gaza at the outset of the genocide.
Starmer was brought into power by Zionist dark money via We Believe in Israel and Labour Friends of Israel. Once installed he purged left wing elements under the guise of "antisemitism", conflating any criticism of Israel with antisemitism and was a loyal servant of the Epstein class, appointing Epstein's best friend, Peter Mandelson, as US Ambassador.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250926-how-pro-israel-money-captured-starmers-labour/
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 55d
You should probably look into the amount of support that England is providing to the genocide from their military base in Cyprus.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-still-sharing-intelligence-israel-surveillance-flights-over-gaza-continue
The amount of people that were silence by fake terrorism charges (journalists included)
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-drops-terrorism-case-against-academic-after-raiding-home-over-tweets
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/26/palestinian-solidarity-in-britain-being-silenced-and-criminalised
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-counterterrorism-police-raid-home-electronic-intifada-journalist-asa-winstanley
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hasan-piker-cenk-uygur-uk-ban-keir-starmer-labour-together
Also the issue with the lobbying group "Labour Together" which has pumped massive amounts into the Labour party against funding laws (previous link and below)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250926-how-pro-israel-money-captured-starmers-labour/