The New Statesman.

Over 80 MPs are calling for Kirstama's resignation, reaching the threshold required for a contender to mount a leadership challenge,

with ministers, including Jess Phillips, resigning from government too.

After a high-stakes meeting this morning, several cabinet members voiced

their support for the Prime Minister, as he defiantly vowed to get on with governing. But Health

Secretary West Streeting, a likely rival, remained, at the time of recording, silent. Will the

Prime Minister survive the week? I'm Anous Shekelian and you're listening to The Politics Show from the New Statesman.

I'm joined by our political editor, Alva Ray, and editor-in-chief Tom McTagg.

Alva, you're in Parliament today.

You're working on your column for this issue of the magazine that is actually going to press this afternoon.

So thank you for joining us in a really busy day.

Can you just

bring us up to speed with what's going on and what the latest is? Oh, Anish, I decided it was time

only a few hours before the deadline and hours later than I normally file. I decided it was time

to turn off the TV and just start writing.

And I got about 60 seconds in when someone from number 10 rang me and said,

are you covering Jess? And I was like, what? And they were like, oh, Jess Phillips has just resigned.

No. So you're getting your news from number 10.

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, it's a fast-moving situation.

Won't someone please think of the weekly magazines in all this?

Seriously, though, it feels like the outcome here is not yet clear or settled.

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