How a British prime minister is replaced: the keys to a possible Starmer succession

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces the most serious political crisis since his arrival at Downing Street in July 2024, but a potential change at the head of the government runs up against a web of internal Labour Party rules, the absence of a consensus candidate, and the personal obstacles weighing on the figure best positioned in internal polling. Starmer, who won the 2024 general election with an overwhelming majority, has flatly ruled out resigning despite mounting pressure from his own parliamentary group following Labour's collapse in the local and regional elections of 1 May. Read full article

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Pugol-H
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

It’s the direction of travel that’s the problem not the décor.

Watch for Andy Burnham resigning as Manchester Mayor and standing in a byelection, then Labour loses the resulting Mayoral election, and Burnham loses the byelection to Reform or the Greens.

There are no ‘safe’ labour seats anymore, and many of the current MPs are on very thin margins to begin with.

The working class, northern ‘red wall’ and Welsh valleys seats are the most anti EU/migration areas of the country.

Where no one in the labour leadership is.

But Reform are.
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