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The News Agents

Is Labour turning on Keir Starmer?

The News Agents

Global

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Another head spinning day in Westminster. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on Starmer to stand down as Prime Minister, saying "the distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change."

Many Cabinet Ministers were quick to jump to Starmer's defence. Some were notably slow to back the Prime Minister. With the drama coming just a day after Starmer lost his right-hand-man, Morgan McSweeney, the question today is whether this is the beginning of the end for Keir Starmer?

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0:00.0

The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:08.7

This is a global player original podcast.

0:11.6

I'm not willing to sacrifice Scotland's NHS, our schools, our communities, our towns, cities, villages and islands to a third decade of an SMP government.

0:22.6

That's why the distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.

0:30.6

That is the leader of Labour in Scotland, Anna Sawa, calling for Kyr Starma to quit, the most senior voice spelling out his belief that things have got too bad for him to stay.

0:48.0

And he says his first priorities are to his country, Scotland.

0:52.8

Was this the moment that the leadership crisis around Kirstama became uncontainable?

0:59.9

Was this the tipping point?

1:01.7

Is the Prime Minister, yet another Prime Minister, about to resign?

1:07.2

Welcome to the Newsagents.

1:13.6

The Newsagents. The Newsagents.

1:14.9

It's Emily.

1:15.5

It's Lewis.

1:16.2

And we thought when we got up this morning, we'd be talking about the resignation of Morgan McSweeney,

1:21.7

Kirstama's Chief of Staff, now former Chief of Staff and right-hand man.

1:26.4

We thought at lunchtime that we might be talking about the resignation of Tim Allen,

1:31.5

another very close aid to here in Downing Street.

1:35.1

But it is now five to three.

1:38.2

And a question mark is looming really with a greater urgency than I think we have felt at any point over the weekend

1:48.6

over what Kirstama does next, because this is a pretty senior voice going public and saying

1:57.0

he has no confidence in the UK Prime Minister, the leader of his party. Here's a little bit

2:05.2

of Anasarwa. It is delicately phrased. In fact, in the speech itself, he doesn't directly call

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