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Union leaders are piling in on Sir Keir Starmer as a Labour mutiny gathers pace after this week’s local elections disaster.
The Prime Minister today vowed to stay in his role for another eight years, insisting he is at the beginning of a ’10-year-project of renewal’.
In a desperate bid to save his premiership he wheeled out Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman back into government yesterday.
But the move has failed to quell the ire of union leaders who have accused Labour of being ‘disconnected from the working classes’.
Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, this morning joined calls for Sir Keir to set out a timetable for his departure.
It follows a threat from backbencher Catherine West to launch a ‘stalking horse’ leadership bid – with No10 nervous anger is so great she could get the 81 nominations required to spark a vote.
She called for Labour to direct its focus from the ‘well-off’ to ‘working people’, adding:
Following Unite chief Sharon Graham’s scathing attack on Keir Starmer this morning, Dave Ward – the general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) – has now also come out against the Labour premier.
Speaking to delegates at the party’s conference in Bournemouth, he said:
Everyone following the latest political psychodrama to consume the Labour party has been asking the same thing since their crushing night in the local elections: when is Andy Burnham going to break his silence?
Well, punters have finally received their answer after the Manchester mayor posted an update on X on Sunday night – but the leadership hopeful’s chosen subject matter might leave politicos slightly disappointed.
Mr Burnham opted to focus on football, gushing about Rochdale’s promotion to the Football League.
He wrote: ‘What a day for@officiallydale! Big congrats to everyone associated with the club and huge gratitude to the Ogden family for bringing it back from the brink.’
SNP leader John Swinney’s call for another independence referendum following last week’s Holyrood election has been rejected by the UK Government.
Labour ministers said yesterday that their position ‘remains exactly the same’ and that they will not support another vote on Scotland’s place in the UK.
The UK Government urged the SNP to focus on ‘delivery, not division’ and on efforts to boost the economy and tackle the cost of living crisis.
It follows Mr Swinney’s claim that he had secured a ‘pro-independence mandate’ despite falling short of the SNP majority which he previously said was needed to force another referendum.
Read more about the fall-out following a momentous election in Scotland:
Many at Westminster expect Sir Keir’s fate to be sealed as early as tomorrow, with a ‘stalking horse’ challenger surfacing and anger mounting among MPs.
But Ms Rayner – who is still wrangling with HM Revenue & Customs over unpaid stamp duty – and Mr Burnham, not currently an MP, both have an interest in delaying the denouement.
The pair were caught holding a secret summit at her house in Greater Manchester last month, with speculation they were mulling a ‘dream ticket’.
Speaking to Sky News this evening, Labour MP Perran Moon urged those battling to become the next leader of the party to instead ‘knuckle down and focus on the job of dealing with the cost of living’.
He offered his ‘100 per cent backing’ to Sir Keir Starmer and said the Prime Minister demonstrated ‘real leadership’ by keeping Britain out of the Iran War.
Mr Moon added: ‘We need somebody who is strong and is really focussed on those the impacts of that international situation, and that is Keir Starmer.’
Pressure has been mounting on the Prime Minister for months now, following a string of U-turns and a scandal surrounding Lord Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador that just will not go away.
The calls for Sir Keir to resign have only grown louder amid the fall-out from a disastrous set of local elections which went about as bad as could have been expected.
And yet, few of Starmer’s MPs have actually called on him to quit – just 32 in fact.
Most notably, former minister Catherine West said that if the PM does not stand down, she’ll launch a leadership bid tomorrow.
Angela Rayner concluded her epic two-part X post by seemingly backing Sir Keir, but urging an immediate change in approach.
Angela Rayner also used her lengthy statement to propose further nationalisation of public services, branding Thames Water ‘an iconic failure of privatisation’.
In the wake of a triumphant night for Reform UK at the local elections, the MP offered a swipe at its leader Nigel Farage over a £5million gift he received from a crypto billionaire shortly before the last general election.
In her stunning post-election statement – issued just a day before Keir Starmer’s awaited address on Monday – former Deputy Prime Minister Rayner set out a manifesto of sorts to cure Britain’s ills.
She praised her own Employment Rights Act and urged a Fair Pay Agreement as well as an increase in the minimum wage.
Rayner also put in a good word for the Government’s recently passed Renters’ Rights Bill, but also backed a ‘building boom that benefits British business and workers’.