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

Lucy Hough· Host0:00

This is The Guardian.

Pippa Crerar· Guest0:01

Hello, it's Pippa Crerar here. I've been speaking to our sister podcast, Today in Focus: The Latest, about all the twists and turns as Keir Starmer faced another tough day. You're gonna hear my chat with Lucy Hough on The Latest now, and then me and Kieran will be back with our usual episode of Politics Weekly on Thursday. I've been speaking to ministers subsequently, including in the cabinet, who say this is beginning to look like an orchestrated campaign.

Lucy Hough· Host0:34

Wes Streeting, do you want to be prime minister?

Pippa Crerar· Guest0:36

Should Wes Streeting decide to go for it, if Andy Burnham isn't in a position to run, that 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· Host0:53

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 Guardian's Today In Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hough. 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