Fight or Go? Keir Starmer Considers His Next Move
6/20/202632 min
Insiders have told Laura that the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has joined a list of people who’ve told Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure. He's at Chequers - the PM’s retreat - considering his next move as talk of fighting a leadership challenge quietens.
Laura and Paddy unpack the shift in mood, and question whether Andy Burnham can appeal to voters outside the North West.
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Well- [laughs] ... I, I'm glad I have that effect on you- You do ... at such serious times.
Speaker 20:35
It is a very serious time.
Speaker 10:35
I mean, have you ever known people in politics who don't talk say a lot with their silence?
Speaker 20:41
They certainly do, and this weekend there is something of tumbleweed going across Westminster and also tumbleweed going across the metaphorical Westminster.
Speaker 10:50
Has a new senior Labour figure and cabinet secretary of state told him to push off?
Speaker 20:58
So as I understand it, Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, is also now one of those who has said to Keir Starmer, "Perhaps you might want to think that this is not realistic for you to stay and fight." We know Heidi Alexander had done that already. I'm told that many other ministers have also now done that. I think that the number of people in Starmer's administration still saying to him, "Stand and fight," has dwindled very quickly. So