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2026 › February › 09
Labour
4 months ago
Anas Sarwar was once a close ally of the embattled PM. His intervention Monday was followed by a show of support from Starmer's allies.
Starmer still needs to explain why he went ahead with Mandelson’s appointment ○
All that can save the prime minister now is fear of a leadership contest tearing Labour apart ahead of the May elections. Either way, his government is “in a heck of a lot of trouble.”
The Guardian view on Morgan McSweeney’s resignation: Sir Keir’s premiership is on the road to nowhere | Editorial ⊕
The departure of the prime minister’s chief of staff signals the demise of the political project which put him in No 10. All bets are off now.
The Labour party spent 14 years in the wilderness, follow…
The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones ⊕
Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces in a Faustian pact to sustain the PM. What they sowed, we’ll reap
A chicken that loses its head can still, for a short per…
Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation ⊖
PM survives day of high tension after Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar urges him to step down amid Peter Mandelson row
How the Downing Street machine ensured Starmer survived to fight another day
Exclus…
Not Keir for long? If Starmer bows to calls to quit he'll be Labour's shortest-serving PM of all time... and will have spent less time in No10 than Brown ⊖
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In the biggest crisis of his premiership, the Prime Minister is being told to resign by senior figures within his own party in the wake of the Peter Mandelson scandal.
How could Keir Starmer be forced out of office? The four options as Labour PM fights for his political life ⊖
Under Labour's rules, a leader can be challenged if at least 20 per cent of the party's MPs nominate a single candidate to succeed him - on current numbers, this is 80 MPs.
VIP abuse ring fantasist 'Nick' freed after serving less than half his sentence under Labour's prisoner early-release scheme ⊖
Carl 'Nick' Beech, 58, was smuggled out of jail last week and taken to an undisclosed probation hostel in the West Country.
Bond market alert for Labour as investors brace for a lurch to the left in No 10: MAGGIE PAGANO ⊕
UK bond yields are not as high as levels reached during the Liz Truss reign.
Yet that will change if investors believe a more left-wing top team were to take charge.
Scottish Labour leader makes his biggest political gamble - but can it pay off? ⊖
The call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign is a defining moment in Sarwar's leadership of Scottish Labour.