British PM Keir Starmer faces calls to resign
The crisis erupted after Scotland's Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, publicly urged Starmer to step aside, exposing open dissent within the governing party, a day after Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney resigned over the Mandelson Epstein revelations.
But after forcing public backing from his cabinet, Starmer told Labour MPs he would not resign.
The reason behind the recent crisis his appointment of ally Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US over a year ago, despite Mandelson 's close ties to the now dead child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, before and after his conviction.
I mean, this is the most egregious example, I think, of his, of his errors of judgment. If we can put it like that, I think it's probably a bit more sinister than that, and as a consequence of that, he's a dead man walking.
I mean, his days are numbered, and he's unlikely to last beyond the Denton Gorton by-election at the end of the month, but if he does survive that, he won't last beyond the local elections, in my opinion, which will be catastrophic for the Labour Party.
Chris Williamson, Former MP
As Labour seems to implode, other parties get to gain. The Prime Minister's approval ratings remain low.
His party trails in the polls, and his leadership is marked by repeated policy reversals and foreign policy alignment with Washington and Tel Aviv.
If there was a general election tomorrow, the two biggest gainers would indeed be Reform and the Greens; quite possibly, that would propel Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, into Downing Street.
Of course, Labour won't want to have an election until the last possible moment. So I think we can be fairly sure, barring an even bigger catastrophe, the next general election will still be in 2029 but as well as having had a lame duck Prime Minister, we're probably going to have a lame duck Labour government in the interim.
Lembit Opik, Former MP
For now, the embattled prime minister is attempting to reassert control by reshuffling senior roles in a bid to put the political near-death experience behind him, but the cards seem stacked against him.
It's been a deeply wounding week for the British prime minister, and he is weaker, but there is more jeopardy lying ahead.
There is a by-election in Manchester later this month, Scottish and Welsh devolved elections, as well as English elections in May, and possibly an attempt by members of his own cabinet and MPs to depose him; a stark reminder that the consequences of recent events are far from over.
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