Labour plotters v stubborn Starmer: will he resign? – The Latest

Lucy Hough· Host0:00

This is The Guardian.

Pippa Crerar· Guest0:01

I've been speaking to ministers subsequently, including in the cabinet, who say this is beginning to look like an orchestrated campaign.

Lucy Hough· Host0:16

Wes Streeting, do you want to be prime minister?

Pippa Crerar· Guest0:18

Should Wes Streeting decide to go for it, if Andy Burnham isn't in a position to run, the soft left will coalesce around at least one other leading figure. And whether that's Ed Miliband, whether that's Angela Rayner, I think it's quite getting increasingly hard to find anybody, even in his top team, that thinks Keir Starmer will definitely last until the next election.

Lucy Hough· Host0:35

Ministers resign after Keir Starmer tells his cabinet he's not stepping down as prime minister, despite more than eighty MPs calling for him to go. How much longer has he got? From The Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hall. Well, joining me is Pippa Crerar, our political editor. Pippa, thank you for joining us on a very, very busy and tense day. Normally, we would ask our political correspondents and editors to, to go about fifteen minutes up some flights of stairs in Westminster, but it's too busy a day for that, so you're in The Guardian office. Let's start with the ministerial resignations that we've had, three of them today a-a-against Keir Starmer. How significant and, and how damaging are they?

Pippa Crerar· Guest1:16

So it's worth just saying, Lucy, that of course, all of this is against the backdrop of what happened yesterday at a very dramatic day at Westminster when, uh, dozens of Labour MPs publicly called for the Prime Minister to go to set out an orderly timetable for his departure,