Election Fallout for Starmer: Will he stay or will he go?
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The elections are over, the people have spoken and they have said that they are not impressed with the Labour Party. But whose fault is that? MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, Catherine West believes there is one person to blame - the Prime Minister and she has vowed to mount a leadership challenge as early as Monday but will it work or will Starmer use yet another of his nine lives?
Our panel this week is former cabinet minister and Editor of the Spectator Michael Gove, Chief political commentator of The Times, Patrick Maguire and host of the Politics at Sam and Anne's podcast, Anne McElvoy.
We also hear from the new leader of Wales, Rhun ap iorwerth and the SNP's Stephen Flynn on their thoughts on independence and from Reform's Richard Tice on their astonishing election victory.
You can watch Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips every weekend from 8:30am on Sky News.
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| 0:39.0 | Dick Tuck, a famous American political prankster, sort of Sasha Baron Cohen, once ran for a seat in the California State Senate. |
| 0:48.7 | On election night, he looked at the votes piling up, realized he was going to take a hammering, and famously told his team, |
| 0:56.1 | the people have spoken, the bums, except that he used a word to describe the voters that referred |
| 1:04.1 | to their parentage, far too rude for breakfast telly. On May the 7th, the British people did speak and they were brutal. |
| 1:13.6 | They gave Nigel Farage a fighting force of nearly 1,500 counsellors. They boosted Zach Polanski's |
| 1:20.0 | ranks by getting on for another 500. They put leaders in Edinburgh and Cardiff who ultimately |
| 1:25.9 | want to break up the UK. |
| 1:28.8 | What they said to Sir Keir Stama was unambiguous. |
| 1:32.8 | We think your government is a massive letdown. |
| 1:35.5 | We really can't see the point of your party. |
| 1:38.2 | And what's more, we really don't like you very much either. |
| 1:42.6 | As we come on air, the Labour Party is in chaos, with a backbencher, Catherine West, threatening to trigger a leadership contest, |
| 1:50.0 | and several of Starmus Cabinet ministers jostling to replace him. |
| 1:54.0 | The Prime Minister is going to respond tomorrow in what we're promised is a major speech. |
| 1:59.0 | To rescue his leadership, he'll need something a bit more persuasive |
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