A messy day for Starmer: is Labour ungovernable?

Politics Weekly UK

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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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 up but no challenge has materialised. Why is the Labour party in such a muddle over Starmer?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:10.0	I had my doubters when I took on the Labour Party.
0:14.0	I had my doubts that we couldn't change this party but make it capable of winning elections.
0:19.0	And I proved them wrong. I I can't prove them wrong again.
0:23.6	We as a party have to do better than this.
0:27.5	And we can only prove we mean our labour values
0:31.1	by putting the common interest ahead of factionalism.
0:34.3	Our labour government can no longer succeed if we have Kea at the helm.
0:40.7	He's not a bad man.
0:42.4	He's a very, very nice man.
0:44.9	But he's an awful politician.
0:47.4	I'm Pippa Carrera.
0:48.7	And I'm Keir and Stacey.
0:50.0	And you're listening to Politics Weekly.
0:52.2	For The Guardian.
0:54.2	The election results last week were tough, very tough.
1:00.9	We lost some brilliant Labour representatives.
1:04.8	That hurts.
1:07.3	And it should hurt.
1:09.8	I get it. I get it.
1:11.6	I feel it.
1:13.6	And I take responsibility.
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