Starmer resigns as prime minister as Streeting backs Burnham for leadership – UK politics live
The prime minister said a new leader will be in place before parliament returns in September
This is from Tom Baldwin, Keir Starmer’s biographer, and head of communications for Ed Miliband when he was Labour leader.
We seem to be in a strange place where Keir Starmer is being told he must quit to prevent more uncertainty and chaos (by those who have caused much of it) but then stay on for a couple of months because the guy who has been desperate to take his job is not yet ready to do so…
Keir Starmer has a mandate from Labour members.
He stood on a manifesto and won a mandate from the British people
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