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Starmer is ready to resign, say allies

Allies of Sir Keir Starmer believe he is preparing to step down after facing an evaporation of support over the weekend. Daily Telegraph 20/06/26 link A senior government figure told The Telegraph the embattled Prime Minister was realising that the “game is up” and his thoughts were turning to how he could “shore up his legacy”. They said there had been “quite a bit of movement” among Cabinet ministers since Andy Burnham’s Makerfield by-election victory, leading Sir Keir to reconsider his previous commitment to soldiering on. One Labour MP, who is usually considered to be a loyalist to the Prime Minister, said he believed Sir Keir would announce his departure date as soon as Monday given that his support among MPs was now down to only a handful of “friends and family”. “There’s no one left. Literally people whose relatives work in No 10 or people who are long term personal friends of Keir’s are pretty much the only ones left,” they said, adding that trying to stand in the way of Mr ...
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Cabinet ministers tell Starmer: Stand aside for Burnham

  Set out timetable for your departure, MPs urge Prime Minister after rival’s by-election win Daily Telegraph 19/06/26 Cabinet ministers have told Sir Keir Starmer he must stand aside for Andy Burnham . The Manchester mayor’s decisive by-election win in Makerfield, where he secured more than half of the vote, has led to a fresh rebellion among Sir Keir’s top team. In his victory speech, Mr Burnham all but called for the Prime Minister to go, declaring it was Labour’s “last chance to change” . He said: “We are going to take that opportunity, and we are going to lay out a new path for Britain.” Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, is understood to have spoken to Sir Keir on Friday afternoon and told him he must now set out a timeline for his departure ahead of a “transfer of power” to Mr Burnham without a leadership contest. Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, Yvette Cooper, the Foreign Secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary , have previously told Sir Keir to consid...
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Burnham wins Makerfield.

Burnham wins by-election to set up fight for No 10 Manchester mayor set to challenge Starmer for leadership Burnham: This is Labour’s final chance to change Reform finishes comfortably ahead of Restore
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When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change

  Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison Daily Telegraph 10/06/26 How can it be that an Islamist double murderer can successfully sue the British state under our own laws, costing us more than £200,000? How can unequal treatment based on race or identity be official policy within the Civil Service, education and the NHS? And how can it be that guidelines for police appear to have led officers to handcuff Henry Nowak as he lay dying, prioritising instead his killer’s baseless cry of racism? The behaviour of the police at the scene of Henry’s death is to be investigated. But – as my party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, rightly said – they were following the guidance and training they had been given. This is not an excuse, but it is a wake-up call: the politics of race and identity are now hardwired into our public institutions, our public services and our laws. One of the main culprits is the public sector equality duty (PS...
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Reform’s success is more than a ‘protest vote’

  In a few short years, Farage’s start-up party has built up a loyal and ideologically committed voter base. Spiked 08/06/26 The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey is the gold standard of its kind. Conducted annually since 1983 by the National Centre for Social Research, it does not merely track voting intention but probes the values, discontents and self-understanding of the British people. When its 43rd report turns its attention to Reform UK, the results demand careful reading, because they are simultaneously more encouraging and more challenging for the party than the headline writers have managed to convey. The report , authored by Sir John Curtice along with Georgie Morton and Jerome Swan, was published on 2 June 2026. Its central finding has already been widely quoted: Reform’s support is driven not merely as a protest against the system, but by a settled, coherent and emotionally committed worldview. Curtice describes Reform supporters as having ‘a level of emotional at...
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