Is Keir Starmer about to resign?
6/22/202630 min
The Prime Minister has been hunkered down in his Chequers residence, trying to decide what to do: resign or fight. The pressure on him to step down has now reached fever pitch since Andy Burnham’s by-election win last week. But as ministers jostle for position in a potential new government, who is still telling him to fight on? And if he does give in, how much would actually change under a Prime Minister Burnham?
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Guest: Aubrey Allegretti, chief political correspondent, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producers: Micaela Arneson, Harry Stott.
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Read more: In public, Keir Starmer is defiant. In private, he ‘considers resigning’
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