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A messy day for Starmer: is Labour ungovernable? – podcast

The Guardian · May 11, 2026, 7:54 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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Keir Starmer kicked off the day with a speech aimed at persuading MPs against launching any kind of leadership challenge. By lunchtime, Angela Rayner was speaking at the CWU conference calling for Andy Burnham to return. In the afternoon the list of MPs calling on him to resign was slowly creeping u

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